Was recommended by a reliable source. From the cover, "...a remarkable testament, and Dr. Verghese writes with the novelist's exacting eye for the memorable character trait and an irresistible narrative drive, even though the story he is telling is not fiction and his poignant characters are, alas, real people. Despite its subject, I found myself uplifted. Verghese makes it seem possible to get behind the petty borders of our ignorance and fear and enter that larger citizenry of the kind and the carring. Galil Godwin"

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