A History Of Present Illness : A Novel

Description: This brutal and brave (Booklist) novel transmutes the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity the meaning of care and the nature of annihilation physical spiritual or both. A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection surgical rotation difficult births sudden deaths and a budding relationship with a seminarian. In the troubled world of the hospital where the language of blood tests and organ systems so often hides the heart of the matter she works her way from one bed to another from a man dying of substance use and tuberculosis to a child in pain crisis to a young woman fading from confusion to aphasia to death. The long hours and heartrending work begin to blur the lines between her new life as a physician and the lifelong traumas she has fled. In brilliant wry and biting prose A History of Present Illness is a boldly honest meditation on the body the hope of healing in the face of total loss and what it means to be alive. 2023 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award American Academy of Arts and Letters A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch A revelation. The New York Times
Title: A History Of Present Illness : A Novel
Barcode: 9780316381161
Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/2/2024