When she was twenty-four years old, Ellen Anderson Penno lost her
partner in a climbing accident on Mount Baker in Washington’s Cascade
Range.
The avalanche hid his body in a crevasse just weeks
before Penno was slated to begin medical school, and she soon found
herself torn between deferring her studies for a year, or starting right
away with a full course load.
Rather than succumbing to grief and risk never beginning her medical education at all, Penno plunged deep into her studies, surrounded by death on all sides, struggling to maintain her way through her turbulent emotions and a rigorous med school schedule.
In this stirring and often funny new memoir, Ellen Anderson Penno structures a story of mourning, loss, despair and love through the lens of the classic medical text Gray’s Anatomy, showing readers what becomes of those who must rebuild their lives after tragedy strikes.
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