Kate Scannell

Flood Stage -- A Novel (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The floodwaters keep rising, the torrential rains continue, and suddenly your life and home are thrust onto flood stage. How do you react to the peril? Do you stay or flee? What do you choose to carry away, and what do you hope to leave behind?

Ferocious rains pummel Thalburg Canyon and overfill the Baptista River that runs through a tight-knit rural community in Northern California.

When flooding ensues, canyon residents are forced to make life-altering decisions, and their interconnected stories are acted out on center stage. A paralyzed woman, exhausted by her life, plans an opportune death in the flood. The local real estate agent is shocked to discover beauty in the canyon's demise. Couples drift together or apart over old affairs and insurance coverage mistakes. A man burdened by a toxic secret struggles for atonement as the flood encroaches upon his final opportunity for redemption.

These and other stories portray a series of unique personal histories caught up in a universal human drama.

Acclaim for the author's memoir Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic

"This haunting memoir is an important addition to the canon of AIDS literature. Scannell writes beautifully and with an insight that escapes most physicians."
Abraham Verghese, author of My Own Country and Cutting for Stone

"Kate Scannell is the rare doctor who has been transformed by her patients. In this irresistible, informative, and enormously moving book, she tells us not only her own story, but theirs."
Gloria Steinem

"A remarkable book, part history, part memoir, that reads with the grace and eloquence of good fiction."
Bay Area Reporter

"... an enormously moving, thoughtful and compassionate memoir."
Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Acclaim for the author's psychological thriller Immortal Wounds: A Doctor Nora Kelly Mystery

"Immortal Wounds is a compelling, richly textured mystery that draws us deeply into the cloistered world of the hospital. A murderer or two may be on the loose in Scannell's thriller, but the psychological struggles and ethical mysteries encountered daily by her doctors and nurses prove just as riveting. A must-read!"
Jodi Halpern, MD, author of From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Word Haven Media INC
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781451552454
• Artikelnr.: 50366541

Autorenporträt

Kate Scannell is a physician and author who lives, writes, and gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is finally enjoying the focused time she's promised herself to write the medical mysteries she's longed to tell. Immortal Wounds-the first in her series involving crack internist Dr. Nora Kelly and colleagues at Oakland City Hospital-was published in September, 2018.

Kate has published extensively in both lay and professional venues. She was a regular opinion columnist (2000-2014) for several Bay Area newspapers and their digital outlets, including The Oakland Tribune and The Contra Costa Times. Her columns explored the ethical and sociopolitical dimensions of modern medicine and health care.

In 1999, she published her memoir Death of the Good Doctor-Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic (Cleis Press). The book relates her experiences serving as the medical director for one of the country's first hospital AIDS wards during the early HIV epidemic years (1985-1990) when most patients suffered quick deaths. Her memoir also recounts her coming-of-age as a woman physician during this unique time. After her book went out of print, she acquired its rights and published it in digital (2010) and book (2012) formats.

In the interim, Kate published Flood Stage-A Novel, a collection of twenty interrelated stories about people living in a diverse rural community whose lives are threatened when torrential rains overfill the local river. When flood stage arrives and apocalyptic flooding ensues, residents of this tight-knit community must make swift and painful decisions. Do they stay or flee? What do they choose to carry away, what do they leave behind? In moments of urgent reckoning, their unique personal histories are acted out on center stage as a universal human drama unfolds.

Though taking early leave of her medical career, Kate loved medicine and patient care. She was board certified in Internal Medicine; Rheumatology; Geriatrics; and, Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She intends to stay close to these interests through her future writing.

She invites you to visit her website at: www.katescannellmd.com