Larry's Kidney
Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirtin
By Daniel Asa Rose
(Harper Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780061708718, 320pp.)
Publication Date: May 2010
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
Categories: Personal Memoirs
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Larry Feldman desperately needed a kidney. After two god-awful years on dialysis, watching his life ebb away while waiting on a transplant list behind 74,000 other Americans, the gun-toting couch potato decided to risk everything and travel to China, the controversial kingdom of organ transplants. But Larry urgently needed his cousin Daniel's help...even though they had been on the outs with each other for years.
So begins the quest of two star-crossed cousins to rejuvenate Larry's failing body and ever-romantic heart, while avoiding getting tossed into a Chinese slammer.
Daniel Asa Rose has won an O. Henry Prize, two PEN Fiction Awards, and an NEA Fellowship. Formerly arts and culture editor of Forward and currently editor of the international literary magazine The Reading Room, he has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, the New York Times Magazine, and is the author of the acclaimed memoir Hiding Places. He lives in Massachusetts.
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