The Book of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine
by Michael Rowe
Category: Social Science

The story of a young man's illness and confrontation with death as seen through the eyes of his father. It also tells a story of parents and children, of doctors and patients, and of high-technology medicine. The book weaves together the significant events of Jesse's life as it moves back and forth between his hospitalization for a liver transplant, his earlier life, and the author's present-day experience of grief.