When Breath Becomes Air

By: Paul Kalanithi

Biography & Autobiography

for readers of atul gawande, andrew solomon, and anne lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'what makes a life worth living?'at the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, paul kalanithi was diagnosed with stage iv lung cancer....