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A review by balfies
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.0
Immensely powerful, visceral posthumous memoir by a neuroscientist-neurosurgeon about his shifting philosophies around life and death in the face of his work and his cancer diagnosis. This was truly compelling to read, I finished it in one sitting. He has a very distinct, intelligent voice. Feel like this is one to return to at big moments of hardship and grief in life.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Death, and Suicide