Larry's Kidney: Being The True Story Of How I Found Myself In China With My Black Sheep Cousin And His Mail-order Bride Skirting The Law To Get Him A Transplant--and Save His Life

This book is about a man named Daniel Asa Rose who travels to China to help his black-sheep cousin, Larry, receive an illegal kidney transplant. Along the way, Rose meets a mail-order bride, skirting the law to get her, and stops a hit-man from killing their uncle. This book is a funny, touching, and bizarre memoir that has resonance.

One of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I've read."
-Boston Globe

Larry's Kidney is Daniel Asa Rose's wild-and-crazy memoir about his trip to Beijing, China, to help his black-sheep cousin Larry receive an illegal kidney transplant, collect a mail-order bride, and stop a hit-man from killing their uncle. An O. Henry Prize winner, a two-time recipient of PEN Fiction Awards, and a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellow, Rose has written "a surprisingly fun, and moving, book with resonance"
-Chicago Tribune