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Off the Shelf
By Hilary Krutt
| Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Paul Kalanithi recounts the story of his own mortality with the
precision of a surgeon and the poeticism of a gifted writer—because, of
course, he was both.
But his uncanny ability to inhabit two seemingly disparate
worlds does not end here; his narrative also straddles the divide between
doctor and patient, caretaker and cared for, lackadaisical philosopher and
man of reason. At the heart of this reckoning is the battle that consumes his
days: “to pursue death: to grasp it, uncloak it, and see it eye-to-eye,
unblinking.” WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR is the beautiful, heartbreaking
exploration of this very inevitability that we all fear—but that few dare to
look straight in the eye. READ
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