When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is a memoir unlike any other written by a brilliant neurosurgeon facing his own death from stage IV lung cancer at the age of thirty six, just as he was completing his residency. Kalanithi turned to writing to make sense of his extraordinary life at the intersection of medicine, literature, and mortality. He writes with equal authority about the neuroscience of consciousness, the ethics of medicine, and the personal struggle to find meaning when time is brutally shortened. His reflections on what separates a good life from a meaningful one are searingly original and beautifully written. Completed just weeks before his death in 2015, it is an intimate masterpiece about identity, relationships, and the human need to create meaning.
Non-Fiction
When Breath Becomes Air
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Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s luminous memoir confronts what makes a life worth living after a terminal lung cancer diagnosis at the peak of his medical career. Profoundly moving and wise.
