Reading Ahead

Article by Jenna Schnuer, American Way
August 15, 2007

he fall (and start-of-winter) book season is just about upon us. Here are some of the titles you’ll want to get in on early.

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories
By Vincent Lam
Weinstein Books, September, $24

It's Grey's Anatomy for the literary set. Lam's debut work, which won Canada's prestigious Giller Prize for fiction, goes inside the world of what it takes to become a doctor. It's a world Lam knows well - he's an emergency physician at East General Hospital in Toronto. His characters deal with trauma and drama as they wend their way through the early years of their life in medicine. Folks with a fear of needles, be forewarned: This may not be the one for you.

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