In this petite and exquisite collection, author Matthew O'Leary creates a literary pathway in and out of the pain of loss and the maddening frustration and lack of control human disease can visit upon us, both as patients and as witnesses to its destruction. Wry and vulnerable, O'Leary's prose seem to empower the reader with the upper hand by offering the illusion of detached cynicism in what he calls, "the biopsy of my mutation." O'Leary's prose will both intensify and lighten you.