Author: Vincent Lam.
Through the eyes of Fitz, Ming, Chen, and Sri Lam finds conflict - an humanity - in the most surprising moments. Together these doctors test the boundaries of intimacy as they cope with exam pressure, weigh moral dilemmas as they dissect cadavers, confront police who assault their patients, and treat schizophrenics with pathologies similar to their own.
This book is excellent. I enjoyed so much and found the narrative really interesting and truly striking in some places. It's a narrative comprised of a series of short stories, each one has one or two of the main characters in and follows a loose timeline from the start of the characters' careers and as they get older and more experienced. It's got a nice flow to it and Lam doesn't feel the need to smack you in the face with exposition every time the narrative jumps a few months or years, you can fill in the blanks nicely from the information he does give you. Out of all of them my favourite chapters are Winston, An Insistent Tide and Contact Tracing. I don't want to give anything away but the Winston chapter was so heartbreaking I felt really choked up by it, really amazing stuff and An Insistent Tide is beautiful, and both have some nice twists in them. It's been a while since I charged through a book in less than a week, I can never find the time, but I couldn't wait to get back to this one every time I put it down.
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