Joseph Helfgot, the son of Holocaust survivors, worked his way from
a Lower East Side tenement to create a successful Hollywood
research company. But his heart was failing. After months of
waiting for a heart transplant, he died during the operation.
Hours after his death, his wife Susan was asked a shocking
question: would she donate her husband's face to a total
stranger?
The stranger was James Maki, the adopted son of parents who
spent part of World War II in an internment camp for Japanese
Americans. Rebelling against his stern father, a professor, by
enlisting to serve in Vietnam, he returned home a broken man,
addicted to drugs. One night he fell facedown onto the electrified
third rail of a Boston subway track.
A young Czech surgeon who was determined to make a better life
on the other side of the Iron Curtain was on call when the
ambulance brought Maki to the hospital. Although Dr. Bohdan Pomahac
gave him little chance of survival, Maki battled back. He was sober
and grateful for a second chance, but he became a recluse, a man
without a face. His only hope was a controversial face transplant,
and Dr. Pomahac made it happen.
In "The Match, "Susan Whitman Helfgot captures decades of drama
and history, taking us from Warsaw to Japan, from New York to
Hollywood. Through wars and immigration, poverty and persecution,
from a medieval cadaver dissection to a stunning seventeen-hour
face transplant, she weaves together the story of people forever
intertwined--a triumphant legacy of hope.
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