Other Endings
Organ Transplantation and the Burdens of Hope
$56.75
- Paperback
204 pages
- Release Date
20 March 2026
Summary
In this raw and intimate memoir, Anita Slominska recounts her sister Shauna’s eighteen-month wait for a liver transplant that failed to take place in time to save her life. Shauna’s death, at age twenty-nine, defied the usual redemptive promise of a life-saving transplant and forced Slominska to confront difficult questions: Why was she so unprepared for the devastating loss of her sister? Why do so many chronicles of organ transplantation celebrate survival, while few acknowledge failure and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780228027195 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0228027195 |
| Author: | Anita Slominska |
| Publisher: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Imprint: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 204 |
| Release Date: | 20 March 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“Heartfelt and passionate. Anita Slominska provides a powerful perspective on waitlist death alongside a beautiful homage to her sister, Shauna.” – Sharrona Pearl, author of Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other
“Other Endings is a brave and compelling memoir that casts a critical eye on the dominant narrative of success stories about organ transplantation. Slominska’s counternarrative foregrounds the untold stories of failure and loss that must be heard.” – Tracy Moniz, Mount Saint Vincent University
Anita Slominska
Anita Slominska is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and the Institute of Health Sciences Education at McGill University.
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