'What It Takes to Save a Life' by Kwane Stewart is about a veterinarian who is struggling to find the good in his life when a chance encounter with a man and his dog outside of a 7-Eleven changes everything. Going from a shelter veterinarian, tasked with determining who lives and who dies everyday, to the Street Vet known around the houseless community in LA, Kwane witnesses first-hand the enduring bond between animal and man and the lengths that owners will go to make sure their pet knows no pain, hunger or sadness. His time with the houseless community and their pets began with a man named Kyle outside a 7-Eleven and has blossomed into a tv show ('Street Vet'), a nonprofit, and countless friendships. 
This book is a memoir interspersed with the stories of those he helps, delving into their background before they ended up on the street. It creates a three-dimensional juxtaposition between the homelessness problem, the day-to-day life of a vet, and his personal life as it unfolds with his continued community work.

Thank you to NetGalley and the amazing publisher for the ARC of this title! I am so grateful to be auto-approved for this title!
I look forward to reading and reviewing. More to come!

I loved this book and I love Dr.. Stewart.
His love for dogs made a wonderful very caring Vet!
I would have loved to have him for my own Vet for my dogs!
This is a great story!
You don't want to miss out on this one!

Thank you so much, NetGalley, the Publisher, and Dr. Stewart, for giving me the chance to read and review this great story!

This is one meaningful book. This is a book that is happening today. Through his narrative, we are sitting with the author, Dr. Kwane Stewart, under the boardwalk, in front of the Pacific Ocean, where he is contemplating taking his own life. He decides to go to the hospital instead. And with that decision, he not only saves himself, but begins a movement to help people and their pets living on the streets in California. HIs mission has now spread to other parts of the country. This book is not only about his work as a veterinarian, but also about the people he gets to know as he learns their stories. He almost gives to us a mirror at the end of the book, perhaps giving us a challenge, which could possibly be the beginning of our story, in changing the status quo. I thank Net Galley and Harper One for the advance read of this book, which, after publishing, will be on the shelves at the bookstore where I work.