The Match: Complete Strangers, a Miracle Face Transplant, Two Lives Transformed

by Susan Whitman Helfgot

Book Overview

Joseph Helfgot, the son of Holocaust survivors, worked his way from a Lower East Side tenement to create a successful Hollywood research company. But his heart was failing. After months of waiting for a heart transplant, he died during the operation. Hours after his death, his wife Susan was asked a shocking question: would she donate her husband's face to a total stranger? The stranger was James Maki, the adopted son of parents who spent part of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143919548X
• ISBN13: 9781439195482
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"