A moving meditation on mortality by a gifted writer whose dual perspectives of physician and patient provide a singular clarity. Writing isn't brain surgery, but it's rare when someone adept at the latter is also so accomplished at the former. This one of a handful of books I consider to be a universal donor - I would recommend it to anyone, everyone. Thanks to When Breath Becomes Air, those of us who never met Paul Kalanithi will both mourn his death and benefit from his life. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?
When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.
Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being MortalĪt the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.
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For readers of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal and Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live.
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