What a wonderful book! I ran across Dr. Tabatabai on Twitter, as so many did, when he posted The Red Car during the pandemic and it still hit me directly in the heart and made me cry when I reread it here. Tabatabai conveys so much with so few words and his prose flows so beautifully whether he's discussing his family, his patients, his mentors, his love of medicine, or his look into the future. He himself describes his stories in the preface as ones about humanism, empathy, love, and loss and this ends up being spot on. As Tabatabai weaved his stories, from his family through his early life and medical education, to his patients and finally being a doctor during the pandemic, I kept coming back to a line he describes in a conversation with one of his patients early in the book, "every living thing needs love to grow." This book is infused with love. I thoroughly enjoyed every morsel as I read and have already begun recommending it as one to keep an eye out for. A huge thank you to HarperCollins and NetGalley for the early copy in exchange for my honest opinion.