Incompatible With Life: A Memoir of Grave Illness, Great Love, and Survival is a lyrically charging medical memoir in the tradition of Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire and Paul Kalanithi’s heartrending self-elegy When Breath Becomes Air. The true-life, high-stakes drama takes readers into a battle for survival against the ravages of Hereditary Hemochromatosis — ravages that surely would have killed the author had he not discovered a final, unexpectedly healing oasis of love, tranquility, and acceptance in the borderlands between life and death.

Incompatible With Life is a rare and intimate portrait of what it feels like to die and how — if we are very fortunate — love, passion, and human connection can fuel a final surge toward life, transcendence, and return.