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Field Guide to Falling Ill: Essays (The Yale Nonfiction Book Prize):
"Everything I want in an essay collection. Perfect balance of research, observation, and personal stories. Gleason pours empathy and kind consideration over a range of medical topics across these 10 essays. Been ill or will be ill? Gonna die someday? "
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"he’s so eeeeearnest and vulnerable throughout the essay. i enjoy that he seldom comes to firm conclusions; the territory he’s working in is squishy and ill-defined in all kinds of ways, so it makes sense that he’d move from conclusion to a set of que"
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"stunning. maybe this comes down to a high 4 with time, but I'm so taken with Gleason's care, attention, and honesty regarding medicine and the people he writes about. these essays remind me what the genre of creative nonfiction can do. "
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