<b><b>“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”—Ann Patchett, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Commonwealth</i></b><br><br>“A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon.”—Henry Marsh, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery</i><br></b><br><b>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><br>Tumors, injuries, ruptured vascular malformations—there is almost no such thing as a non-urgent brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain—in which a single millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human—every day presents the challenge, and the opportunity, to