{"product_id":"when-breath-becomes-air-paul-kalanithi","title":"When Breath Becomes Air\nPaul Kalanithi","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'What makes a life worth living?'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Breath Becomes Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student \"possessed,\" as he wrote, \"by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life\" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat makes 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 does 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Resheh bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40908026445959,"sku":"","price":4.0,"currency_code":"JOD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/1854\/6311\/files\/23B78FFC-6A46-4090-89C4-33B10AF7C0A0.jpg?v=1706905169","url":"https:\/\/reshehbook.com\/products\/when-breath-becomes-air-paul-kalanithi","provider":"Resheh bookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}