“A thoughtful consideration of the ways women and girls survive—and even thrive—within oppressive patriarchal systems that refuse to recognize them as full people.”

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Victoria Namkung

NBC News

“This is an unforgettable book. A reminder of what contagion is like at its deadliest, and what medicine can be like at its very best.”

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Abraham Verghese

author of Cutting for Stone

“Enter Kwan Kew Lai, a daring doctor who writes movingly about what it’s like to do volunteer work in some of the poorest places in the world.”

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Anthony Bartelme

author of A Surgeon in the Village: An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa