The Breath We Owe (Paperback)

Paperback. Kwame Mensah is born in colonial Kumasi on a date that will later become Ghana's Independence Day. As the country grows into self-government, he grows toward medicine, carrying a family lesson that no cure belongs to one pair of hands.Training in Accra teaches him how easily institutions confuse authority with accuracy. A delayed qualification, a rural referral road, marriage, fatherhood, and public service force him to confront the hidden labor behind every official success-and his own habit of claiming more certainty than the evidence permits.Years later, medical assignments take him from besieged Sarajevo to the overwhelmed shores of Lesvos. There, a question mistranslated during wartime returns through an encounter he never expected, and an aging physician must decide whether helping someone gives him any right to possess their story.Humanity's fate may depend not on whether its systems are innocent, but on whether people inside them can remain answerable for what they do, what they record, and what they leave unpaid.The Breath We Owe is Book Seven of the Fate versus Faith series, an interconnected literary historical novel with speculative elements, exploring medicine, independence, consent, memory, institutional responsibility, and the ordinary labor that keeps human beings alive. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…