Steep

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>A kid from Boston's ghetto becomes a neurosurgeon. His ancestors insist he avenge centuries of pain with a life of infinite success. But he and his elite education find their way to an unlikely destination where he wrestles with his history and the armored identity it has imposed. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>Steep</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)> is long on resilience short of villains and victims. The author works to befriend that history and so to blunt its power. He examines the price-and the value-of success. His story will resonate with anyone who's run from their past anyone whose world feels too small. </span></p><p></p>