COVID-19

Samantha, a young pathology resident reluctantly enters into the ugly reality of mass graves on Hart Island, New York City. Unknown and unwelcome realities meet her and spins her life into chaos. She meets Dr. David Falkner, a medical examiner and opens the unexpected door in her life. The storyline is propelled along a timeline, introducing seemingly unrelated characters connected by shocking, intimate experiences based on many real events. Written by an Asian American pathologist and internationally recognized breast cancer expert, this breakthrough novel provides the reader confidence in knowing what really happened with COVID-19 and how the race for vaccines is done without getting bogged down in deep science. 
All of the author's royalty profits from the book will be donated to people in need. 

Samantha, a young pathology resident reluctantly enters into the ugly reality of mass graves on Hart Island, New York City. Unknown and unwelcome realities meet her and spins her life into chaos. During this unforgiving time of the pandemic, she meets Dr. David Falkner, a medical examiner and opens the unexpected door in her life. Her personal journey settles with understanding her own identity. Storyline is propelled along a timeline, introducing seemingly unrelated characters connected by shocking, intimate experiences. We empathize and experience romance, racism, tragedy, guilt, heroism, and God. Based upon many actual events and scientific facts, people regain their agency in spite of dramatic events. This gripping and engrossing story largely from a female perspective is never predictable. Medical and scientific facts underpin the narrative and are seamlessly woven into the storyline, as we understand COVID-19 from many perspectives and countries. Written by an internationally recognized breast cancer expert, this breakthrough novel provides the reader confidence in knowing what really happened with COVID-19 and how the race for vaccines is done without getting bogged down in deep science. The author also provides salient information for those with a science or medical background. Dr. Apple has scoured current medical and scientific journal articles and research findings from around the globe to provide a concise and unified understanding for all readers. The author's personal life experiences of racism, tragedy, and courage are also encountered in the story, then further elaborated upon in a personal interview that concludes the book. All of the author's royalty profits from the book will be donated to people in need. Specifically, a well-established food bank, and Wheels for the World, providing wheelchairs to people struggling with disability, across the world through Joni and Friends.

Sophia K. Apple, MD Emeritus Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Apple is the author of over 70 professional original medical research papers, and is on the editorial board for Modern Pathology, which has the highest impact factor of all Pathology medical journals, and a primary editor and author of Breast Imaging, a seminal medical textbook correlating Pathology and Radiology findings in the diagnosis of breast cancer. She has taught hundreds of medical students, over 100 Residents and Fellows in Pathology, and numerous other physicians-in-training from Radiology, Surgery, and other disciplines. Dr. Apple is an internationally recognized expert in Breast Cancer, having spoken at numerous conferences and venues.

Personal history: Dr. Apple and her husband currently live in Southern California and have been married for 33 years. She contracted the polio virus as an infant in South Korea. Her family moved to Japan after her fourth grade, where she lived for almost four years but was unable to attend school because of the stigma from her disability. The family later moved to New York City for better education, becoming one of the first Asian families to live in Queens. She came to America with no knowledge of English, and later graduated from NYU with a BS and MS in Biochemistry, completed medical school in Ohio, and six years of residency and fellowship training at UCLA. She came to know Jesus as her personal savior at the age of 17 when she was hit by a car while crossing the street, and God changed her life perspective of who she was and the purpose of her life ever since. Her perspective of life and as an author is unique, as an Asian American immigrant and female physician with a physical disability. She continues to practice medicine as a pathology physician.
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