My book is coming out tomorrow… feeling both scared and excited. Hope everything goes well.
It is about a grieving neurosurgeon accidentally created something he could not control. Although it is fictional, part of it is my own experience.
After losing his wife piece by piece to a cruel disease, neurosurgeon Dr Wei Li devotes his life to restoring what the brain has lost.
His experimental neural repair allows Daniel Brooks, paralysed after an accident, to walk again. But Daniel’s recovery awakens something neither of them understands, an ability that draws admiration, fear, and dangerous attention.
As the world begins to divide over what Daniel has become, Wei must confront the question buried inside his miracle:
When does healing become something else?
Blending medical science, artificial consciousness, grief, Buddhist philosophy, and a near-future political thriller, The Self That Remains asks: if the self is always changing, what remains when memory, body, and identity begin to disappear?
Potential triggers/content warnings
Death and grief, terminal illness, medical procedures, animal research, state violence, restraint, torture.
Publication date: 28 August 2026
ARC distribution date: ARC copies are available now and will be sent to selected readers by email.
Requested review date: Ideally by 28 August 2026, the publication date. Honest reviews are appreciated; a positive review is not required.
ARC format: PDF ebook edition.
Availability: Open internationally. Please note that the book’s Amazon page is currently available for preorder on Amazon page:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6L4VN8J
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