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When breath becomes air (book club kit - nonfiction) / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese. by Kalanithi, Paul. Random House, [2016] Call #: BOOK CLUB KIT 616.99424 K14w Subjects Kalanithi, Paul -- Health.   Lungs -- Cancer -- Patients -- Biography.   Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.   Husband and wife -- Biography.   Married people -- Biography.   Terminally ill -- Biography.   Mortality -- Biography.   Physician and patient -- Biography.   Physicians -- Biography. URL856 Click here to learn more about borrowing Book Club Kits URL856 Would you like to see what other titles we have available in Book Club Kits? Click here! URL856 Holds must be placed via our Request Form URL856 Information kit for When Breath Becomes Air ISBN:  9780812988406 (hc.) Alternate title:  Book club kit : When breath becomes air Bookclub kit : When breath becomes air Edition:  First edition. Description:  10 books, xix, 228 pages ; 20 cm. Notes:  Holds can be placed via the Contact Us page on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the kit, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available. Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This kit includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Paul Kalanithi's "When breath becomes air", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The kit is available to borrow for 6 week loans. Summary:  "A memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? In May of 2013, when he was on the verge of completing a decade's 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. This memoir chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naive medical student into a neurosurgeon at Stanford studying the brain, and then suddenly into a patient confronting his own mortality. 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. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015 while working on this book. He was 37 years old. His words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" A, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a man who became both. Paul Kalanithi, M.D. grew up in Kingman, Arizona. His essays and interviews can be viewed on his website, paulkalanithi.com"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Book Club Kit Other authors:  HPL Readers Services Holds:  3   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Collection Management Adult Book Club Kit BOOK CLUB KIT 616.99424 K14w Adult Book Club Kit Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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