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During my residency, one of my favorite ICU nurses asked me is everything in this book true? She was surprised I hadn't read it yet. This was some time around 2012 or so when everyone was moving on from the twilight craze and onto the shades of grey phenomenon. In any case, she gave a snippet of the scenarios and I confirmed the caricatures to be somewhat realistic. Fast forward to 2018, and I'm looking for a few quick fun reads and found it available as an e-b0ok via Iowa City Public Library.
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It's Gossip Girl on steroids with a cast of Singaporean Chinese. It's a delicious read of the guilty kind. You know you are not supposed to look up to all those materialistic extravaganza, but in the end, how can you resist the wish of having your private jet, when you just cramped in economy for a 12-hour flight, followed by a nearly 10-hour domestic train ride which was supposed to be 5 hour 4 minutes long had it not for the special seasonal feature of Deutschbahn--winter suicides.
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