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Seeds: Memoir by Sasha Vukelja, M.D.
07/15/2009
Seeds is a true story of courage, survival, and achievement - against impossible odds. This moving and inspiring memoir was written by Sasha Vukelja, M.D., a physician at Texas Oncology-Tyler.
Medical oncologist, Sasha Vukelja, M.D.., recalls how a young woman and her mother escaped from Communist Yugoslavia into a new life in America. In this incredible account, Sasha and her mother walk out of prison and into the open arms of strangers across Europe. They finally arrive in America with only a few suitcases of clothes, her mother's rolled-up paintings and a handful of English words. Sasha quietly pursues her childhood dream of becoming a physician. But she must overcome poverty, language barriers, discrimination, and her mother's disapproval, to continue her unlikely journey to beomcing one of the most respected medical oncologists in America.
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