Twin A: A Memoir

Amit Majmudar

Description

Shortly after learning they would become the parents of twins, the physician-writer Amit Majmudar and his wife received a devastating in utero diagnosis: one of the twins had a potentially fatal congenital heart defect.

Written in the form of an extended letter, Twin A recounts the epic story of the open-heart surgeries, complications, and prolonged recoveries that Majmudar's son survived in infancy and early childhood. But the narrative turns into something much richer and more expansive than the mere description of a surgical history. Thanks to Majmudar’s ample gifts as a wordsmith, medical and scientific information frequently give way to original poetry and fables, family history, and a series of evocative religious and philosophical reflections about matters of life and death.

The result is a fresh, captivating exploration of the events that transform his son and everyone around him. Drawing strength and beauty from catastrophe, Majmudar’s Twin A creates a moving portrait of a family’s love and a child’s extraordinary resilience.

 

1.     BEFORE YOU

You are Born

Who We Were Before We Were Yours

Ultrasound

Numerology, Embryology

How You Grew Your Heart

Needles

Repeating the Echo

The Parting of the Hair

Deliverance

 

 

2.      HANDS

Twinned Poems

Hands

Dewdrop and Rosebush

The First Surgery

Dr. Z

Homecoming

How We Coasted

Baby Boy Blue

The Hands of Hani Hennein

 

3.     REMAKING YOU

The Second Surgery

Your Open Chest

Reawakening

Pain

Ativan

An Omen

Kawasaki Syndrome

The Odds

How Could All This Fit in a Single Year?

 

 

4.     COMPLICATIONS

Going Under

Epic Hero

Your Blue Horse

Dr. K

“There is Nothing There”

Dead Space

Hope

Boston Children’s

Timing

 

 

5.     YOUR PEOPLE

Motherhood

Ami’s Telling

Twin B

Three

The Fire in the Heart

The Smudge of Kohl

Tools

“My One Thing”

I Bow to You[GW1] 

 

Acknowledgments

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 [GW1]Will there be an author's note or acknowledgments at the end?

Sujets

• Personal Memoirs
• Medical
• Médecine
• Memoir
• Pediatrics
• Hinduism
• CHD

Informations

• Publié par: Slant Books
• Date de parution: 15 août 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781639821402
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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