Breath
- ISBN-10
- 0099497239
- ISBN-13
- 9780099497233
- Series
- Breath
- Category
- Bereavement
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Michael Symmons Roberts
Description
As night unfolds, the plane travels through storms across the civil war-ravaged country, to deliver a lung from a boy killed in an accident to a waiting transplant recipient -- an old man, fighting for breath -- a northerner, with blood on his hands.
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