Larry's Kidney

by Rose, Daniel Asa

• ISBN13: 9780061708718
• ISBN10: 0061708712
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

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. He was confident he could shake out a single, pre-loved kidney from the country's 1.3 billion people. But Larry urgently needed his cousin Daniel's help . . . even though they had been on the outs with each other for years. But wait: Larry was never one to "not" get his money's worth. Since he was already shelling out for a trip to China, he decided to make it a twofer: he arranged to pick up an (e-)mail-order bride while he was at it. After a tireless search of the Internet, he already knew the woman he wanted. An unforgettable adventure, "Larry's Kidney" is the funniest yet most heartwarming book of the year.

Author Biography

Daniel Asa Rose has won an O. Henry Prize, two PEN Fiction Awards, and an NEA Fellowship. Formerly arts and culture editor of Forward and currently editor of the international literary magazine The Reading Room, he has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, the New York Times Magazine, and is the author of the acclaimed memoir Hiding Places. He lives in Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. xiii
The Phone Call	p. 1
McMao	p. 12
The Larry and Mary Show	p. 22
Making Love Out of Nothing at All	p. 40
Situation Splendid	p. 56
“Chutzpah” Is a Jewish Word	p. 67
Good Luck, We Trick You	p. 83
Anaerobic Memories	p. 101
The Kidnap Cabbie	p. 114
Welcome to the Super 2	p. 129
Return of the Kidnap Cabbie	p. 144
Shabbos Duck	p. 159
Dear Florida Power & Light	p. 178
Long, Long Live!	p. 197
Knock-Knock-Knock	p. 208
Thousand-Year-Old Panda	p. 223
Fate Make Us Together	p. 234
The Last Kidney in China	p. 249
Long Live Larry	p. 265
The Art of War	p. 283
Epilogue	p. 299
Nice Clear Morals, as Larry Prescribed	p. 302
Acknowledgments	p. 303
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