Stories from the space between medicine and being human.

Dialysis units aren't just medical settings.

They're microcosms of humanity — full of struggle, questions and connection, where people navigate the daily and long-term challenges of living on dialysis.

A community develops.

Patients and staff help each other through the hardest days. The novel explores the unforeseen connections that form in the most trying of circumstances.

Most of us deny our inevitable death.

It's not so easy for dialysis patients. They live on life's edges and know mortality in their bones — and still, life keeps happening.

It's a work of fiction, but entirely true.

Written from a nursing viewpoint, for anyone drawn to the intersection of medicine and literature — and for the patients, families, nurses and technicians who live it.