Silk and Clay

<p><strong>He was a cardiologist at the top of his game-until his own body turned on him.</strong> On an ordinary Monday a sudden cramp in Dr. Deepak Thekkoott's leg sent him on a harrowing journey from healer to patient. Diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia he was thrown into the chaos of hospitals chemo and confronting death-all while trying to hold his family his faith and his sense of self together. <em>Silk and Clay: A Physician's Journey of Cancer Survival and Restored Faith</em> is a richly layered narrative that weaves together medicine memory and migration-told with unflinching honesty and spiritual depth. It is about what it means to heal when the cure might kill you and to carry centuries of culture and love through each brutal day. With sharp detail searing vulnerability and flashes of dry wit Dr. Deepak invites us into a body broken a spirit searching and a soul that refuses to be undone.</p>