Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant - And Save His Life
Larry Feldman desperately needed a kidney. After two god-awful years on dialysis, watching his life ebb away while waiting on a transplant list behind 74,000 other Americans, the gun-toting couch potato decided to risk everything and travel to China, the controversial kingdom of organ transplants. But Larry urgently needed his cousin Daniel's help...even though they had been on the outs with each other for years.\ So begins the quest of two star-crossed cousins to rejuvenate Larry's failing...
Search in google:
Larry Feldman desperately needed a kidney. After two god-awful years on dialysis, watching his life ebb away while waiting on a transplant list behind 74,000 other Americans, the gun-toting couch potato decided to risk everything and travel to China, the controversial kingdom of organ transplants. But Larry urgently needed his cousin Daniel's help...even though they had been on the outs with each other for years. So begins the quest of two star-crossed cousins to rejuvenate Larry's failing body and ever-romantic heart, while avoiding getting tossed into a Chinese slammer. The Washington Post - Andrew Ervin Larry's Kidney, a stranger-than-fiction memoir by Daniel Asa Rose, serves as an enjoyable testament to the lengths to which we sometimes go to help family, even when doing so is a terrible, terrible idea…The ensuing adventure is the stuff of slapstick comedy
Author's Note ix1 The Phone Call 12 McMao 183 The Larry and Mary Show 334 Making Love Out of Nothing at All 625 Situation Splendid 886 "Chutzpah" Is a Jewish Word 1047 Good Luck, We Trick You 1298 Anaerobic Memories 1589 The Kidnap Cabbie 17810 Welcome to the Super 2 20111 Return of the Kidnap Cabbie 22412 Shabbos Duck 24813 Dear Florida Power & Light 27914 Long, Long Live! 30915 Knock-Knock-Knock 32516 Thousand-Year-Old Panda 34917 Fate Make Us Together 36718 The Last Kidney in China 39119 Long Live Larry 41720 The Art of War 446Epilogue 472Nice Clear Morals, as Larry Prescribed 477Acknowledgments 479
\ Andrew ErvinLarry's Kidney, a stranger-than-fiction memoir by Daniel Asa Rose, serves as an enjoyable testament to the lengths to which we sometimes go to help family, even when doing so is a terrible, terrible idea…The ensuing adventure is the stuff of slapstick comedy\ —The Washington Post\ \ \ \ \ Wall Street JournalMr. Rose writes a gripping tale, especially notable for its revealing look at modern China.\ \ \ Boston GlobeOne of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I've read. A remarkably talented writer, a great book.\ \ \ \ \ Los Angeles TimesOne of 60 "hot books for summer -- the best of this summer's forthcoming reads.\ \ \ \ \ The New York ObserverSkillful, funny, fascinating.\ \ \ \ \ The ForwardElegantly written and deeply moving, it passes the laugh-out-loud test with flying colors. A classic contribution to the annals of cross-cultural comedy.\ \
