Stories of Strength is our brand new virtual book club for the Better Together community. We'll choose a memoir of resilience that enhances our understanding of the human spirit and makes us better equipped to help our clients. You'll read the book at your own pace, then together we'll meet virtually to discuss. We hope you'll join us!

Our first Story of Strength is "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi.

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live...the book chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

RSVP below if you plan to join us for the virtual discussion on Friday, May 30.