Eight doctors struggle to save a dying baby—until a ragged boy points to the child’s neck and says something no one dares believe

sustainable, and about Dr. Halvorsen, who had said wait when it mattered.

He thought about Monday.

He thought about what it would mean to wake up on Monday morning in a room that was only his, in a house where breakfast was a predictable thing, and walk to a school by himself along a route he didn’t yet know, and sit in a classroom among children who continue reading …