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I am a pediatric hospitalist (inpatient pediatrician) formerly based in Atlanta, but in late 2021 I resigned my position in order to serve as my mother's primary caregiver after the death of my father, and moved back to the Philadelphia area. I primarily enjoy world literature, including literature written by immigrants to North America and Europe, and nonfictional and fictional works about medicine, along with fiction, non-fiction and poetry written by authors of color.

I am participating in Club Read again this year. I'm also the administrator of the Booker Prize group.

Books I've Read in 2024:

January:
1. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
2. The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter
3. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

March:
4. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison

April:
5. Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for You & Your Loved Ones, 4th Edition by Francis Mark Mondimore, MD
6. The Details by Ia Genberg
7. What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma
8. Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieria Junior

May:
9. The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean
10. Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriott
11. Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
12. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid
13. Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain by Dasha Kiper
14. My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's by Sandeep Jauhar

July:
15. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
16. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
17. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
18. Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr

August:
19. James by Percival Everett
20. There There by Tommy Orange
21. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
22. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
23. My Friends by Hisham Matar
24. Desperately Seeking Basquiat by Ian Castello-Cortes

September:
25. What Kingdom by Fine Gråbøl
26. Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century by Laura Beers

October:
27. Held by Anne Michaels
28. Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga

November:
29. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
30. Our Malady: Lessons from a Hospital Diary by Timothy Snyder

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Bookstores: Blackwell at Wellcome Collection, Book Culture, Book Trader, Brick Lane Bookshop, Bristol Books & Bindery, City Lights Books, Come In (llibreria anglesa), Daunt Books - Marylebone, Dominicanen (voorheen Selexyz/Polare), For Keeps! Books, Foyles, Foyles Bookshop Royal Festival Hall, Green Apple Books, Harriett's Bookshop, Head House Books, Idlewild Books, Joseph Fox Bookshop, Joseph's Bookstore, La Central Del Museo Reina Sofía, Labyrinth Books, Livraria Bertrand, London Review Bookshop, National Theatre Bookshop, New Beacon Books, Posman Books - Ponce City Market, South Bank Book Market, Strand Bookstore, Tate Modern Shop, The Harvard Coop, Topping & Company, University Press Books, Virginia Highland Books, Waterstones London (Piccadilly), Word Power Bookshop

Libraries: College of Physicians of Philadelphia -- Historical Medical Library and Wood Institute, Free Library of Philadelphia - Katharine Drexel Branch, Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Fulton County Public Library - Peachtree Library, Jimmy Carter Library & Museum, Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library, Robert W. Woodruff Library (Emory University)

Other: AJC Decatur Book Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Museum of Modern Art, AJC Decatur Book Festival, National Theatre, Georgia Center for the Book, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Ivy Hall (SCAD - Savannah College of Art & Design), Asian Art Museum, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University, African American Museum in Philadelphia, The Commonwealth Club of California

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