The Open Heart Club - by Gabriel Brownstein (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This history of the heart and cardiac medicine--as told by a writer with a congenital heart defect--ponders issues of mortality, empathy, and the things that make someone human.one human.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>This absorbing and poignant book is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is a history of cardiac medicine, a candid personal journey, and a profound reflection on mortality.</b><b><br></b>Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world just as doctors were learning to operate on conditions like his. He received a life-saving surgery at five years old, and since then has ridden wave after wave of medical innovation, a series of interventions that have kept his heart beating.<br><i>The Open Heart Club</i> is both a memoir of a life on the edge of medicine's reach and a history of the remarkable people who have made such a life possible. It begins with the visionary anatomists of the seventeenth century, tells the stories of the doctors (all women) who invented pediatric cardiology, and includes the lives of patients and physicians struggling to understand the complexities of the human heart. <i>The Open Heart Club</i> is a riveting work of compassionate storytelling, a journey into the dark hinterlands between sickness and health lit by bright moments of humor and inspiration.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>The Open Heart Club</i> is a truly heartrending story of one man's lifelong struggle with heart disease, backed up with a powerfully well written history of the people whose discoveries have kept him alive.--<i><b>Mimi Swartz, author of Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart</b></i><br><br>"<i>The Open Heart Club</i> sets out to bolster your faith in medical science and in progress.... As a writer Brownstein is cheerful, self-deprecating, and instructive. His prose is lucid; he's an able popular historian, and he weaves his own story in deftly . . . Again and again, small detonations of gratitude and wonder."--<i><b>Commonweal</b></i><br><br>[An] engaging account of his uncertain life...Brownstein's warmth and candor will keep readers immersed in this tale of survival in a time of chronic illness.<br>--<i><b>Kirkus Reviews</b></i><br><br>A compelling plunge into a dark subject by one of the most engagingly honest and warmly sympathetic narrators you'll ever meet.--<i><b>Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and to Tell</b></i><br><br>Surgery is a miracle. It's easy to forget how radical it is for a doctor to cut into our bodies, make repairs, and close us up again. Life, too, is miraculous, and this is also easy to forget as we go about our daily lives. <i>The Open Heart Club</i> is a tribute to both. This is the story of one man's life and Life itself. Meticulously researched and written with beauty and wonder, this is a story that will make you marvel at every beat of your own open heart.--<i><b>Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage</b></i><br><br>The history of heart surgery is told in <i>The Open Heart Club </i>as a supremely risky scientific adventure and as a personal memoir ... Brownstein uses his storyteller's skills deftly.<br>--<i><b>Minneapolis Star Tribune</b></i><br><br>This is an extraordinary book, one that artfully weaves Brownstein's poignant personal recollections together with a fascinating history of ideas and innovations that have ushered in the era of modern surgery. Anyone who cares about medicine, technology, longevity-or the human heart-needs to read this.--<i><b>Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Gabriel Brownstein </b>has published a novel, <i>The Man from Beyond</i>, and a book of stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W. For his short fiction, he has won a PEN/Hemingway Award and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches at St. John's University in Queens, New York, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.
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