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Loading... The Bone Bridge: A Brother's Storyby Yarrott Benz
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This isn't really my genre, so I didn't know what to expect. I was wholly drawn into the narrative. In 1970 the author's brother was diagnosed with a deadly blood disease, and only his twice-weekly platelet donations kept him alive. At the time the author was only sixteen, and his relationship with his brother was volatile. This went on for years, tethering the two brothers together preventing the author from doing what would normally have happened, to grow out of the family home and explore his rising homosexual interests. A true and honest account of a unique (according to the book, this is the only known case of such an extended one-to-one platelet donation) situation. ( ) no reviews | add a review
We all wonder if we would do the right thing if called upon ... even if it meant risking our own lives and sense of self. In The Bone Bridge: A Brother's Story, author Yarrott Benz is forced to deal with extraordinary self-sacrifice. This is the harrowing account of teenage brothers, as different as night and day, trapped together in a dramatic medical dilemma-a modern miracle and a modern nightmare. The only case like it in history, the true story unfolds over thirteen years as the two brothers navigate through their enmeshed lives with all that they feel for each other: hatred and love, rejection and acceptance, disdain and respect. Despite painful and violent conflicts, Yarrott must bear the full responsibility of keeping his brother alive. In our world of the individual, where careerism, ego, and personal gain are key, The Bone Bridge describes a vastly different human situation. It is a beautifully crafted, affecting story, honest and raw, and also one in which the reader invariably asks, What would I have done? No library descriptions found. |
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