“From Operating Room to Oxygen Shortage: How a Young Doctor Discovered the Rhythm of Survival on Everest”
While the memoir is pitched as an adventure story, partially because Zieman’s publisher Falcon Press is the world’s leading publisher of outdoor recreation content, it is so much more than that, and Zieman — whose book talks I’ve attended live and on Zoom — agrees. It’s a “finding one’s “own voice and learn[ing] to trust it” coming-of-age story; it’s a physician’s story; it’s a child-of-immigrants story; it’s a coming-to-terms-with-one’s (“awkward…too large, and full of shame”) body through movement story; and it’s a woman’s story, among others.
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