Funny, honest and compassionate linked stories providing a portrait of health and humanity like nothing we have read before

A less cute, more truthful version of Grey's Anatomy Kirkus Some of the most startling and memorable stories I've ever read ... A fascinating study of our fragile human condition, both physical and emotional. Here is a writer - and a doctor - whose empathy for her people, her characters, springs forth on every page Peter Orner, author of Love and Shame and Love I devoured the stories ... each one is written with a beautifully precise balance of clarity and insight. She combines a doctor's eye with a writer's heart Elizabeth Day, author of Scissors, Paper, Stone

Louise Aronson has an MFA in fiction and an MD from Harvard Medical School. She has won the Sonora Review prize, the New Millennium Writings short fiction award and has received three Pushcart nominations. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California where she cares for frail older patients and directs the Pathways to Discovery Program, the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center and UCSF Medical Humanities. She lives in San Francisco.