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\n #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u2022 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST \u2022 This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?<\/p>\n

\u201cUnmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.\u201d\u2014Janet Maslin, The New York Times<\/p>\n

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review,\u00a0People, NPR,\u00a0The Washington Post,\u00a0Slate,\u00a0Harper\u2019s Bazaar, Time Out New York,\u00a0Publishers Weekly,\u00a0BookPage<\/p>\n

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade\u2019s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi\u2019s transformation from a na\u00efve medical student \u201cpossessed,\u201d as he wrote, \u201cby the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life\u201d into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.<\/p>\n

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.<\/p>\n

Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. \u201cI began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,\u201d he wrote. \u201cSeven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: \u2018I can\u2019t go on. I\u2019ll go on.\u2019\u201d When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
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Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir

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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Random House; 1st edition (January 12, 2016)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Hardcover \u200f : \u200e 228 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 081298840X
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0812988406
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 11.2 ounces
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.1 x 0.9 x 7.7 inches <\/p>\n

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