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Molting RESULT SPECIFICATION No ORIGINAL Black WHITE Paper B5 BOOKPAPER (STRONG CUIDER), LIGHT MATERIALS Clear PRINTING (NICE) Volide SOFCOVERPaul Kalanithi At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a na jailve medical student "poscessed," ace he write, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, made a virtuous and meaningful life" in a neurosurgeon at Stanford Work in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What make life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What do it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi was edited in March 2015, while working on this book, still his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I Started to see that face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. Seven words from the Beckett began to repeat in my head:'It go on. I'm going on.'" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-afing reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who attends. Preise for When Breath Becomes Water "I Guarantee that finishing this book and thenting forget about it is just not an option.... Part of this book's tremendous impact come from the clear even it author was like a brilliant polymath. And part comes from the way he conveys what to him-passionately work and striving, deferring gratification, waiting to live, learning to die-so well. None of it is maudlin. Nothing is exaggerated. Ace he write to a friend:'t't' s just tragic and just imaginable enough.' And just important enough to be unmissable."-Janet Maslin, The New York Times "An Emotional investment well worth make: a moving and thoughtful memoir of family, medicine and literature. It is, despite The grim undertone, accidentally inspiring."-The Washington Post