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Hello! Fellow physician and ARC reader- interested! Send me a copy at amymae94@gmail.com if you’re open to it!
Thank you both! Amy, I sent you some files via email just now. Samadous, thank you for your kind words! Let me know if you would like a copy!
I'm interested! It sounds like a very deep and emotional read.My email is elandareviews@gmail.com
Thank you both. I’ve emailed pdf and epub copies to both of you. Unfortunately I don’t have a DOC copy properly set up. Sorry about that!
The stroke took his hand. The implant gave it back. Then it kept going.
Jon Finn was a violinist before a stroke stole his right side and his voice. The experimental device his doctors offer is a quiet miracle: it restores his hand, his speech, his playing. His recovery astonishes the hospital. His bowing has never been cleaner. He and the woman he loves have never fought less.
And, note by note, word by word, he is vanishing.
The implant doesn’t take his life. It takes his self: smoothing the edges, finishing the sentences, choosing the notes he used to reach for. Everyone sees a man restored. Only Jon feels his own wanting drain away.
Spare, unsettling, and quietly devastating, Temperament is a debut novella about identity, illness, and the hidden cost of being made better; a story that grows shorter and quieter as its narrator disappears.
Written by a practicing physician, it lingers where medicine can’t answer: when everything you can do remains, and
only the you is gone, is that still you?
For readers of Flowers for Algernon, Klara and the Sun, and Never Let Me Go.
Temperament: A novella by K. Aurum