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Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life
William Morrow
May 2009
On Sale: May 12, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0061708704
EAN: 9780061708701
Hardcover
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"Serves as an enjoyable testament to the lengths to which we sometimes go to help family." THE NEW YORK OBSERVER: "Skillful, funny, fascinating." MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL: "Like nothing else you've read, pitch-perfect dialogue, hilarious and heartbreaking." MIAMI HERALD: "Quirky, charming, Rose is a gifted writer and good company. The master of dialogue." BIRMINGHAM NEWS: "With its humor, sensitivity and shocking twist at the end, `Larry's Kidney' is a literary trip worth taking. Delightful." RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH: "An immensely entertaining, effervescent book crammed with colorful characters and zippy dialogue." HEALTH & MEDICINE WEEK: "Just as important as the book's deeply moving and enormously comical entertainment value are the deep insights into the world of organ transplants. Required reading for the medical community as well as the general public as well as the medical community." A J JACOBS: "You've never read a book like this. And if you have, please tell me what bookstore you go to, because I want to buy any other books that weave love, China, family, and internal organs into an amazing and touching tale. For everyone else, it's probably easier to just buy Daniel Asa Rose's book." RICH COHEN: "In this hilarious, moving book, Daniel Asa Rose and his cousin Larry set out like Sancho Panza and Don Quixote, in search of a mail order bride (of the take out variety), and human organs, running into classic Quixotic misadventure along the way--just the book for our confused, terrifying, absurdly global, medically challenged age. In short, that very rare thing--a wonderful story told by a wonderful writer."
 Media BuzzDiane Rehm Show - NPR - July 23, 2009
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