Healer: A Novel by Carol Cassella (English) Paperback Book

Description: Healer by Carol Cassella Synopsis coming soon....... FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description From national bestselling author Carol Cassella comes the story of one doctors struggle to hold her family together through a storm of broken trust and questioned ethics.Claire is at the start of her medical career when she falls in love with Addison Boehning, a biochemist with blazing genius and big dreams. A complicated pregnancy deflects Claires professional path, and she is forced to drop out of her residency. Soon thereafter Addison invents a simple blood test for ovarian cancer, and his biotech start-up lands a fortune. Overnight the Boehnings are catapulted into a financial and social tier they had never anticipated or sought: they move into a gracious Seattle home and buy an old ranch in the high desert mountains of eastern Washington, and Claire drifts away from medicine to become a full-time wife and mother. Then Addison gambles everything on a cutting-edge cancer drug, and when the studies go awry, their comfortable life is swept away. Claire and her daughter, Jory, move to a dilapidated ranch house in rural Hallum, where Claire has to find a job until Addison can salvage his discredited lab. Her only offer for employment comes from a struggling public health clinic, but Claire gets more than a second chance at medicine when she meets Miguela, a bright Nicaraguan immigrant and orphan of the contra war who has come to the United States on a secret quest to find the family she has lost. As their friendship develops, a new mystery unfolds that threatens to destroy Claires family and forces her to question what it truly means to heal. Healer exposes the vulnerabilities of the American family, provoking questions of choice versus fate, desire versus need, and the duplicitous power of money. Author Biography Carol Cassella, MD, is a practicing anesthesiologist, novelist, and speaker. She majored in English literature at Duke University and attended Baylor College of Medicine. She is the bestselling author of the novels Gemini, Oxygen, and Healer, published by Simon & Schuster. Carol lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, with her husband and two sets of twins. Visit the author at CarolCassella.com. Review "Its tough to follow a spectacular debut like Oxygen, Carol Cassellas striking first novel, with an even stronger second novel, but shes done it with Healer. There are no blatant good guys and bad guys in Healer, no simple blacks and whites. Cassellas characters come in myriad shades of gray that make up the complex psyche of all human beings. And when money competes with good intentions, Cassella doesnt shy away from negotiating the murky ethical areas where profit and altruism collide, weaving questions of immigration, health care, and the power of big pharma into a page turning drama. I highly recommend this compelling new book by this remarkable author." —Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain Review Quote "The ethics of the drama, and Cassellas portrayal of the very real and contemporary flaws in our health-care system, make this novel a promising debut." Details ISBN1416556141 Publisher Simon & Schuster Year 2011 ISBN-10 1416556141 ISBN-13 9781416556145 Format Paperback Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Short Title HEALER Language English Media Book Author Carol Cassella Imprint Simon Spotlight Entertainment Subtitle A Novel Pages 320 Publication Date 2011-06-14 NZ Release Date 2011-06-14 US Release Date 2011-06-14 UK Release Date 2011-06-14 AU Release Date 2011-09-30 DEWEY FIC Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137877322;

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