The Children's Hospital

A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, a young medical student finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny. Simultaneously epic and intimate, wildly imaginative and unexpectedly relevant, The Children's Hospital is a work of stunning scope, mesmerizing detail, and wrenching emotion.

Astoundingly good, a raggedly ambitious book, and proof that Adrian is equal to his ambition... profoundly disturbing, suffused with weird and unsettling poetry... The best and the weakest of humanity, the most-feared and most-hoped for things, can all be found within these pages -- Stuart Kelly Guardian
Quirky, flippant and clever -- Theresa Munoz Sunday Herald
Uplifting Daily Telegraph
To read Adrian is to take part in the exciting process of watching a talented and original writer gain mastery of his powerful gifts New York Times Book Review
Adrian is a writer of prodigious talent who holds your heart in your hands... we will be lucky as long as he continues to write Boston Globe
One of the most revelatory novels in recent memory... Cleverly conceived and executed brilliantly San Francisco Chronicle
Adrian's life is a dedicated exploration of the things that matter most, and his writing is his companion and interlocutor, his guide and interpreter, as he travels a landscape not before seen by other eyes. And every report he makes of that world enriches and enlarges our own sense of the world we thought we knew -- Marilynne Robinson
Adrian is a truly brilliant person with a unique way of processing the world around him, and the ability to communicate that vision back to us in what is often a startlingly beautiful manner -- Nathan Englander
A powerful, thought-provoking story Emerald Street

Selected by the New Yorker as one of the 20 Under 40, Chris Adrian is the author of Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, and A Better Angel. He lives in San Francisco, where he is a Fellow in Paediatric Hematology-Oncology. Adrian has a commissioned piece in Granta 120 Medicine, published August 2012.

A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, a young medical student finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny. Simultaneously epic and intimate, wildly imaginative and unexpectedly relevant, The Children's Hospital is a work of stunning scope, mesmerizing detail, and wrenching emotion.

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