The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery - Gabriel Brownstein

Gabriel Brownstein is an associate professor of English at St. John's College. His short stories have been published in The Harvard Review, Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All Story , and Glimmer Train . He won the PEN/Hemingway Award for his collection of stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt 3W , and his 2005 novel The Man from Beyond was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.