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GEMINI

Carol Wiley Cassella

Dr. Charlotte Reese is familiar with the drill when a new patient is flown by helicopter to her intensive care unit in the middle of the night, Charlotte has cared for hundreds before this one. But this patient, the victim of a hit and run, arrives with one vital thing missing: a name.

Over the course of three weeks, Charlotte fights to keep this gravely injured Jane Doe alive, even as the hospital and legal systems seem set to oppose her. What Charlotte doesn't foresee is how deeply her own life will become entangled with Jane Doe's, and how this medical and professional crisis will alter Charlotte's own faltering relationship with the man she loves. Two alternating voices build a story of dramatic turns and predestined discoveries that raise questions of where and why a life begins or ends. Set in the high stakes, high-tech medical mecca of downtown Seattle and the marginal towns and raw wilderness of the Olympic Peninsula, Gemini twists two women's contrasting stories into a tight, heartbreaking conclusion. Carol Cassella is a practicing anesthesiologist and novelist. Her first novel Oxygen has been published in eight languages, was a national bestseller, and was a Library Journal pick for one of the best first novels of 2008. Healer was published in 2010. Both novels were finalists for the Washington State Book Award in fiction.

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Book Published 2014-03-04 by Simon & Schuster

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A book at turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, it invites us to accept, if nothing else, that the only way to live is to “cling to every moment even as you [leap] into the next.” Read more...

The third outing by the author of Oxygen (2008) and Healer (2010) is a compelling look at the collision of a physician’s professional and personal lives....A uniquely involving read.

With big themes, an unforgettable setting, high stakes, mystery, suspense, heartbreak, human triumph, and rare insight, GEMINI surprises and fascinates at every turn. Nobody writes about the miracle of the human organism like Carol Cassella. GEMINI is a novel sure to keep readers flipping pages deep into the night.

Carol Cassella has written a wonderful novel. A deeply moving story about the heartbreaking pursuit of happiness by a courageous woman without means. Gemini is a page turner, I had a hard time putting down."

Once again, Carol Cassella has written a novel full of gorgeously rendered characters, fascinating medical detail and tour de force plot twists. From its gripping first pages straight through to its stunning conclusion, GEMINI is an unforgettable novel—a morality tale, a mystery, and a love story that will leave readers breathless.