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A review by nataliebootlah
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete."
Wow. What a beautiful memoir.
Paul Kalanithi is in his last year of neurosurgery residency when he’s struck with debilitating back pain that’s eventually diagnosed as stage IV lung cancer. What Paul does next is write, and we are lucky to have his book.
Through this tragic, vivid story, we witness Paul’s life full of study, literature, love, hardship, sickness, and death. It is a deeply moving, heart-rendering look at what it means to live.
TW: cancer, death, medical content.
Wow. What a beautiful memoir.
Paul Kalanithi is in his last year of neurosurgery residency when he’s struck with debilitating back pain that’s eventually diagnosed as stage IV lung cancer. What Paul does next is write, and we are lucky to have his book.
Through this tragic, vivid story, we witness Paul’s life full of study, literature, love, hardship, sickness, and death. It is a deeply moving, heart-rendering look at what it means to live.
TW: cancer, death, medical content.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Death of parent, and Death
Moderate: Grief