Sometimes Mine is the story of Genie Toledo, a work-obsessed cardiologist, and her long-term affair with Mick Crabbe, a married college basketball coach.  Mick gets sick, Genie meets his family, and everything changes.  People say this book makes them cry.  I think it’s my favorite because it shows people in difficult circumstances pulling their lives together.

I often have doctors as characters because I’m a physician myself (general internist.)  I’m no longer in private practice but see patients as a volunteer once a week in a clinic for the working poor.