David Silverstein’s memoir, Heartbeat, An American Cardiologist in Kenya, has just been published. Knowing each other for many years, David (allow me to call my friend that) asked me to contribute a blurb on its back cover, and through reading the book I got to know him so much better — including learning about the many common elements in our histories.
David was born in August 1944, just a few months before me, and he came to Kenya in 1974, three years before I did. He married his second wife Channa 22 years ago, at the age of 56, six years after I married my second wife Evelyn, when I was 50.
