I would consider this a close best book read of this year for myself. As a non fiction I would put it close to Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert.A Caro read this year as well. The book starts out slow with author's experiences and her patients lives told in a intertwined story of meaning and self discovery. Each of the person's story added to the weight and the last quarter of the book was extremely heart warming and emotional with its life lessons. This book also got me out of a reading slump with its quick paced story telling.