A review by badbrad002
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

4.0

I finished When Breath Becomes Air, the memoir of neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi after he is diagnosed with terminal cancer at age 35. He is skilled at humanizing clinical procedures that he had performed, without alienating or confusing the reader (notably at one point, comparing adjacent healthy and still births). His wife punctuates the book with an epilogue, in which she writes "what happened to Paul was tragic, but he was not a tragedy." Understandably, a powerful read.