Tanya Mosley

But how did that come up against the realities of the situations that you have come up against during your career?

Yeah.

Are there any tradeoffs that you had to make in order to move your practice into the RV environment?

Doctor, your parents left Iran when you were really young, three years old, and it was just ahead of the Islamic Revolution.

And so that meant you grew up in California while your cousins and other loved ones were still in Iran, and they grew up under a very different reality.

What did you understand growing up about that decision and what it cost your parents and what it really gave you?

How young were you when you realized about your parents' choices and what that actually meant for what it gave you?

Much later, though, you come to learn something else pretty profound that

Your mother named you Mary after your grandmother, a woman named Marie.

And that's when you started asking questions.

So you write about this in the book that your aunt, she visits from Iran.

You two step outside for a cigarette one day.

And she tells you something that she wasn't supposed to tell you.

Can you take us to that moment?

Mary, I'm just thinking about you as an OBGYN.

You know exactly what drank a drink might mean clinically, what she was trying to do, how it likely took her life.

And what you have done in this book, it's one of the most powerful parts of the book for me, is that you kind of reconstruct her last days from the inside.

You give your grandmother this fully lived interior life with her own voice and her own experiences.

And you come to this point where you are kind of fully in conversation with her just based on what you know and based on your deep feelings personally.

It's the kind of knowledge and wisdom that many cultures believe in fact and truth.