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The Atheist and the Parrotfish
By Dr. Richard Barager

Sometimes God can be found in the most unlikely of places…

NEW NOVEL FOLLOWS DOCTOR AND TRANSPLANT PATIENT WITH

EERIE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS ORGAN DONOR'S MOST INTIMATE SECRETS

"The Atheist and the Parrotfish offers a thought-provoking story that challenges both one's intellect and one's heart, exploring health and sickness, faith and atheism, and love and betrayal...The book is one the reader will long remember and ponder."
IndieReader

"Barager hits the bull's-eye...this well-written, gripping book is a deep dive into some intriguing questions...readers will be left wondering what their own stance is."
US Review of Books

"Barager's exploration of human relationships, beliefs, and compulsions...culminates clearly, with a conclusion highly satisfactory to the reader."
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From Caitlin Jenner to the great Target bathroom debate, gender issues have been a hot topic recently. Now, Dr. Richard Barager, who is a nephrologist by day and a fiction writer by night, is continuing the conversation in his latest novel, The Atheist and the Parrotfish.

The Atheist and the Parrotfish follows Dr. Cullen Brodie, a twice-divorced California nephrologist, and Ennis Willoughby, a troubled cross-dresser whose life is saved by a rare heart-and-kidney transplant. When Ennis becomes convinced that the donor's soul has inhabited him, Cullen sides with Ennis's psychiatrist, who tells Ennis he has subconsciously confused his emerging transgender personality with the imagined characteristics of his female donor.

While his psychiatrist coaxes forth Ennis's female side, Cullen is summoned to the South Pacific by an old lover for a reckoning of their past. On the island paradise of Rarotonga, he is forced to confront the heartrending truth about a tragedy that destroyed their college romance—a tragedy Cullen blames on religious zealotry.

Filled with resentment over what he has learned, Cullen returns to Southern California determined to shatter Ennis's delusion of ensoulment. But Ennis's eerie knowledge of his donor's greatest secret forces Cullen to consider the unimaginable: Is it possible he is witness to a verifiable incident of transmigration, tangible proof of a human soul? Or is he witness instead to the miracle of being transgender? Male and female at once, the poetry of one and the poetry of the other, both burning—like a parrotfish, another miracle of nature, changing gender apace, beside its glorious, ever-changing hue.

The Atheist and the Parrotfish blends Dr. Barager's extensive experiences as a kidney specialist with his passion for the written word.  

"I am a champion of the healing power of literature and sometimes even prescribe novels or short stories to patients to help them cope with illness," Dr. Barager says. "Fiction explores meaning in a way science cannot. Sometimes only fiction tells the truth."

About the Author:

Richard Barager, MD, FACP, is a nephrologist, treating dialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients in Southern California. In the evening, he writes fiction, believing the two finest callings in life are doctor and writer, one ministering to the human condition, the other illuminating it, each capable of transforming it. 

Dr. Barager received his BA and MD from the University of Minnesota, and did his postgraduate training at Emory University in Atlanta and the University of California in San Diego. 

His critically acclaimed first novel, Altamount Augie, received a silver medal in ForeWord Reviews 2011 Book of the Year Awards, a Historical Fiction Gold Medal in the 2011 eLit Book Awards, a Literary Fiction Silver Medal in the Independent Publisher (IPPY) 2012 Regional Book Awards and was a Fiction Finalist in the 2012 USA Best Book Awards.

Dr. Barager resides in Orange County, California. For more information, please visit www.richardbarager.com and connect with him on Facebook,LinkedIn and Goodreads

The Atheist and the Parrotfish is available now for pre-order via Amazon.

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