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Paul Kalanithi
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When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
A neurosurgeon at the threshold of a brilliant career is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at thirty-six, and turns the same disciplined attention he gave the brain onto the question of how to live when the time left is unknown. It is unbearably moving and, somehow, never maudlin.