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With his heart, and his world, on the brink of stopping, John Sperzel’s prognosis was grim: He had a rare condition diagnosed fewer than 300 times in medical history - typically during autopsies. Sperzel needed a heart transplant. Yesterday. Courage, part captivating memoir, part inspirational call to action, begins with Sperzel’s gripping account of his extraordinary battle through multiple surgeries and being placed on life support, his agonizing wait for a donor heart, and the “kiss of death” that almost ended it all.

It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult...