On Khaled Hosseini’s trilogy, the choices we can’t undo, and the uncomfortable truth that family is both the wound and the bandage. I’ve read all three of Khaled Hosseini’s books multiple times. The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed. I know how they end. I know which pages will wreck me. […]
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The heartbreaking “Math” of ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and why we should stop playing it safe. I find myself returning to this photograph again and again. Paul Kalanithi, forty pounds lighter than he was before cancer, skeletal and exhausted, cradling his newborn daughter in hands that once performed brain surgery. They are both breathing. One
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My teenage daughter handed me a wrapped book on Christmas morning with a smirk that should’ve been a warning. “You’ll like this one, Mom.” Was all she said. And in teenager talk, that must mean: “This is about to roast you, and I’m here for it.” She was right. Glenn Boozan’s “There Are Moms Way
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