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Also by Max S. Gerber:

My Heart vs. the Real World, February 2008
Hardcover

My Heart vs. the Real World
Max S. Gerber

Children with Heart Disease, In Photographs & Interviews

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
February 2008
On Sale: February 1, 2008
216 pages
ISBN: 0879697822
EAN: 9780879697822
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Photography | Non-Fiction

My Heart vs. the Real World is a photo documentary volume that explores the lives of children with congenital heart disease (CHD) through striking black-and-white photographs and interviews with subjects and their families. Ten chapters each spotlight a single child and in an additional chapter, the author writes about his own experience of growing up and living with CHD. The images and personal accounts reveal how, compared with someone healthy, a chronically ill child develops adult attitudes in a much different way. These are stories of how CHD patients and their families cope with and overcome extraordinary obstacles and learn about themselves during the process. My Heart vs. the Real World is sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always thought-provoking, and altogether human.