A gripping story of a young man who came to the USA nearly half a century ago from a village in East Bengal which was to become Bangladesh. While narrating his tale of how he became a successful physician specializing in treating cancer patients and establishing himself as a highly respected member of his community, Dr Fazlur Rahman takes his readers through some awe-inspiring and exciting events. His recollections as a seven-year-old boy who went through the harrowing experience of his beautiful young mother dying during childbirth set a somber tone to the start of this mesmerizing memoir. His observations and commentary on medicine and society, the cultures of the East and West and fairness and justice clearly establish Rahman as a master storyteller. This is a most welcome addition to our contemporary literature because it proves beyond doubt that it is the immigrant population which makes America great, gives it its moral strength and the diversity it provides, its uniqueness in the entire world. --Dr Kanti Rai, MD, winner of the 2014 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology.