When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is available as a \;print book\, an \;eBook\, \;a \;downloadable audiobook\, an \;audiobook CD\, in \;Large Print\, and a \;book club kit \;in th e Library's collection.
\n"At the age of 36\, on the verge of comple ting a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon\, Paul Kalanithi's hea lth began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul\, deep down\, had su spected: he had stage four lung cancer\, widely disseminated. One day\, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying\, and the next\, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that\, the future he and his wife h ad imagined\, the culmination of decades of striving\, evaporated. Breath Becomes Air approaches the questions raised by facing mortality from the d ual perspective of the neurosurgeon who spent a decade meeting patients in the twilight between life and death\, and the terminally ill patient who suddenly found himself living in that liminality. At the base of Paul's in quiry are essential questions such as: What makes life worth living in the face of death? What happens when the future\, instead of being a ladder t oward the goals of life\, flattens out into a perpetual present? When face d with a terminal diagnosis\, what does it mean to have a child\, to nurtu re a new life as another one fades away?"
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