The Life or Death Committee: A Novel

Who has the right to live? Who should decide? Bestselling author Jillian Medoff explores the human cost of impossible choices in a dazzling novel inspired by a controversial true story.

In 1961, dialysis could save lives, but it was available to only a handful of patients. That summer, seven Seattle citizens—a pastor, a surgeon, a lawyer, a labor leader, a housewife, a banker, and a city official—were asked to perform an unprecedented act of public service. Privately known as the “Life or De...