Pathologies: A Life in Essays

When a pathologist comes home after a day of dissecting dead humans, what is he like? And how would he treat his kid? Susan Olding tells us. The fierce honesty of this book, and its luminous prose, make it hard to put down. This book lays open, in clear and striking words, the distance we all must bridge, to touch the ones we love. And that pathologist's child - when she grows up and is unable to have a child of her own and adopts a ten-month old from an orphanage in China - what would that be like? What if the child has "attachment disorder?" This book offers no excuses. No platitudes. It opens the human heart in all of its beauty and complexity, and offers it to the reader.