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“What are you reading?” That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors believed was...

¿Qué estás leyendo? Ésa es la pregunta que le plantea Will Schwalbe a su madre, Mary Ann, mientras están sentados en la sala de espera del centro de atención a pacientes de cáncer del hospital Memorial Sloan-Kettering. En 2007, Mary Ann regresó de un viaje de ayuda humanitaria a Pakistán y Afganistán aquejada de lo que los médicos creyeron que era una clase de hepatitis muy poco común. Meses después le diagnosticaron un cáncer de páncreas en estado avanzado.

Can one story change the course of your life? Will Schwalbe, bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club and Books for Living, invites notable guests to tell stories of the books — and the moments — that changed them.

From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape from reality?...