Open Heart - by Gregory D Williams (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Read <em>Open Heart, </em> a coming-of-age novel that provides an inside look at a team of <strong>surgeons healing broken hearts</strong> and a young man trying desperately to <strong>heal his own</strong>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><strong>Life is fleeting. Love is a gift.</strong><p><br></p><p>In this coming-of-age novel set in the 1970s, Gene Hull is whitewashing the trunks of Arizona citrus trees when he spots a beautiful girl and falls instantly in love. The girl is vulnerable and shy. Though Gene breaks through her reserve, a date at a wave park turns into a near disaster, and Gene must call on the one person he can always rely on-his doctor father.</p><p><br></p><p>Although the girl survives and Gene wins her over, what will happen when they leave for college? Is she truly "the one," or <strong>will distance drive them apart</strong>?</p><p><br></p><p>When a freak accident blows a hole in Gene's freshman year, his grades tank, and he bobbles the ball with the love of his life. She's gone forever. Not only that, but he'll never get into med school on grades alone.</p><p><br></p><p>Hoping to improve his chances of admission, he spends the summer trailing a famous heart surgeon. But can Gene, determined to live up to his father's legacy, turn his <strong>summer in the "Heart Room"</strong>-an operating theater of chilling cold, bone saws, and macabre humor-into an experience that would make his father proud? Will he ever love again?</p><p><br></p><p>If you like novels where family life is complicated, and <strong>parents' expectations trickle down into their children's lives</strong>, then you'll love Gregory D. Williams' <em>roman à clef</em> about <strong>life, love, and finding one's own true path</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>Read <em>Open Heart</em> today for an inside look at a team of <strong>surgeons healing broken hearts</strong> and a young man trying desperately to <strong>heal his own</strong>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"In matters of the heart, a single lapse of judgment can prove fatal. In this wise and tender novel, a young man finds out if he can live</p><p>up to his father's reputation and his own expectations of himself. Greg Williams is a terrific writer!"</p><p>- Ron Carlson, author of the <em>At the Jim Bridger</em> and <em>Return to Lone Pine</em></p><p><br></p><p>"In the tradition of great physician writers like Chekhov, William Carlos Williams, and Walker Percy, Dr. Greg Williams proves himself to be a master chronologist of both emotional and physical matters of the heart. With a diagnostician's keen eye for telling details, he brings the novel's scenes into vivid life. He shows his beautifully drawn characters the same empathy that I am sure he once showed his patients. Sharply honed as a scalpel, <em>Open Heart</em> is mesmerizing and profound, a superb novel that is guaranteed to bring pleasure and a deeper understanding of the human condition to those who read it."</p><p>- Daly Walker, author of <em>Surgeon Stories</em></p><p><br></p><p>"An actual heart beats in this novel from the first line to the last. Make no mistake about it, with care and grace, and an urgency you'll feel on every page, Greg Williams has written a beautiful and evocative novel about a young man's singular and authentic quest to make meaning of life."</p><p>- Billy Lombardo, author of the <em>The Man With Two Arms</em> and <em>How to Hold a Woman</em></p><p><br></p><p>" . . . a story about the boundaries of love, and how terrifying it can be to face up to our own emotional shortcomings."</p><p>- Clint McCown, editor of <em>American Fiction</em></p><p><br></p><p>" . . . a tale that holds both surprise and inevitability, and evokes laughter even as it veers into pathos and tragedy."</p><p>- Peter Selgin, judge of the <em>Arts and Letters</em> Fiction Prize</p><p><br></p><p>"<em>Open Heart</em> is a gentle coming of age story that leaves readers wanting more, yet gives them a sense of comfort as they reach the end."</p><p>- Rabia Tanveer, for <em>Readers' Favorite</em></p><p><br></p><p>"From his physician father's ability to save the day, which turns into an impossible legacy for his son to fulfill, to the career and love choices that create turbulence and complications in a son's life, Gregory D. Williams does a fine job of capturing the changing options and challenges facing a young man who breaks others' hearts because his own is being wrung by life circumstances and family ties."</p><p>- Diane Donovan, for <em>Midwest Book Review</em></p><br>
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