{"id":39,"date":"2008-01-03T00:48:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T05:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mishra.fts.educ.msu.edu\/2008\/01\/03\/transplanted-man\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T18:17:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T23:17:28","slug":"transplanted-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2008\/01\/03\/transplanted-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Transplanted Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Transplanted-Man-Novel-Sanjay-Nigam\/dp\/0060512156\/ref=cm_cmu_up_add_glance\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51MG25NP47L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg\" alt=\"Transplanted Man\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI just finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Transplanted-Man-Novel-Sanjay-Nigam\/dp\/0060512156\/ref=cm_cmu_up_add_glance\" target=\"_blank\">Transplanted Man<\/a> by Sanjay Nigam. A strange but entirely fascinating and satisfying novel with quirky and interesting characters. Nigam is quite willing to tackle difficult and &#8220;big&#8221; questions but does it with a light touch. <!--more-->I had read his first novel, <em>The Snake Charmer<\/em>, a few years ago and though the details are hazy in my mind, I remember finding it different and very well written. Finishing <em>Transplanted Man<\/em> makes me want to go back and read <em>The Snake Charmer<\/em> once again. Nigam is a doctor and professor of Pediatrics \/ Medicine \/ Cellular &#038; Molecular Medicine at UCSD, and some of his background and expertise shows up in this book. Here is a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=3&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmeded.ucsd.edu%2FCatalog%2Foverview%2Fnigam.html&#038;ei=FXV8R8nlGKaqiAHHx8zmDg&#038;usg=AFQjCNFC6r1JiA-sZS59Q_biaeETEcVG0w&#038;sig2=xwIG6eoAX0e_ouWCRTucuw\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with him, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/cancer.ucsd.edu\/summaries\/snigam.asp\" target=\"_blank\">UCSD web page<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Transplanted Man by Sanjay Nigam. A strange but entirely fascinating and satisfying novel with quirky and interesting characters. Nigam is quite willing to tackle difficult and &#8220;big&#8221; questions but does it with a light touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}