Shaw’s memoir is drawing rave reviews for his beautiful, vivid, award-winning writing as he takes the reader into the high-stakes world of transplant surgery and reminds us what it means to be human. He has been compared to Mary Roach, Atul Gawande, and Jerome Groopman.

Wendy Moore, author of The Knife Man, says that “This darkly fascinating and ruthlessly honest memoir charts the highs and lows of a transplant surgeon’s life from bright-eyed junior to wise veteran with humor, intelligence, and compassion.”