Urgent Calls from Distant Places. Boston, MA, Creemore Press. 2024

Available in hardcover, softcover, e-book and audiobook. 

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An enthralling portrait of high-wire emergency care performed under the most trying circumstances....The author’s gripping, evocative prose conveys the adrenalized pressure of emergency care...The result is a true-life medical drama that combines tense heroics with mordant reflections." - Kirkus Reviews

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"Munk evokes the chaos and flurry of Africa’s larger cities alongside the desolation of desert landscapes, all in expert prose that smoothly transports readers into another world." - Publisher's Weekly Booklife​

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"...with succinct and beautifully crafted prose. Urgent Calls from Distant Places is an inspiring and deeply moving book.."- IndieReader

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"Urgent Calls From Distance Places is not only a powerful and dramatic portrait of medical relief work in rural Africa, it’s a deeply-felt and utterly accurate critique of the cruel moral failings of American healthcare as well." - Dr. Frank Huyler, author of The Blood of Strangers, White Hot Light and Right of Thirst.

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“...this book is an absolute home run. One of the best books I have read by a physician writer, ever." - Dr. Louis Profeta, author of The Patient in Room Nine Says He's God.

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            Quarter finalist for best non-fiction book of 2023 by Publisher’s Weekly Booklife Award

 

            Winner: Best travel book, 2024 Indiereader Discovery Award

 

            Finalist for best memoir, 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award Award

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Munk is represented by Dalyn Miller at the Torsk Literary Agency

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