Letting Go: A Memoir

Rating:
Summary: A pretty good book
Review: I am actually directly related to Mark Smetko--he is my uncle. This was a pretty good book. Knowing how our family actually lived through it, I think it was a little romanticized but for the most part quite realistic. The medical terms at the beginning added understanding and interest, and helped build up to the devastating shock when Dr. Gruber developed Hepatitis C and had to quit his job as a surgeon.

This story might have a couple of editing things that need to be revised a little bit. Otherwise, it is a pretty touching story and it was very sad for those of us actually living it. My uncle Mark was a very interesting person and it is good to read about the lives of these three people--Dr. Gruber, Mark, and Mark's mother Zita, my grandmother.

Rating:
Summary: A journey
Review: This book creates a journey in your own heart and mind as you travel with Dr. Gruber through his. This book touched my heart in ways I didn't expect. It is a tale worth telling and a book worth giving. If you cried when you read Tuesdays with Morrie, you will cry when you read this book.