{"id":652,"date":"2016-01-29T16:37:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T21:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2016-01-29T16:37:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T21:37:32","slug":"when-breath-becomes-air-by-paul-kalanithi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/when-breath-becomes-air-by-paul-kalanithi\/","title":{"rendered":"When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.abebooks.com\/isbn\/9780812988406-us-300.jpg\" alt=\"When Breath Becomes Air\" width=\"175\" height=\"258\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Breath Becomes Air<br \/> by Paul Kalanithi<br \/> Random House, January 12, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With a message both mournful and life-affirming, <em>When Breath Becomes Air<\/em> chronicles a young doctor\u2019s journey from literature student to promising neurosurgeon and finally to a patient in his own hospital after being diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. Always profound, never sentimental, this important book refuses to take refuge in platitudes, instead facing mortality with honesty and humility. Written in engaging prose and filled with penetrating insights, this story is relevant to everyone and will captivate fans of memoir, literature, philosophy, and popular science alike. Lyrical passages of great beauty and vulnerability are deftly balanced by bright, candid moments of joy and even humor. Come prepared with plenty of tissues; over and over again this exquisite book will break your heart. This is a great choice for fans of Atul Gawande&#8217;s <em>Being Mortal.<\/em> You can read more and <a href=\"http:\/\/store.loganberrybooks.com\/when-breath-becomes-air\">buy the book here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"stcpDiv\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a message both mournful and life-affirming, When Breath Becomes Air chronicles a young doctor\u2019s journey from literature student to promising neurosurgeon and finally to a patient in his own hospital after being diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. Always &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/when-breath-becomes-air-by-paul-kalanithi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}