East of the Mountains
David Guterson Audio Book

Dr Ben Givens had been a bypass heart surgeon, admired in his field. The fallibility of the human body had been distant from him until a diagnosis of his own condition - which he concealed even from his own family. Therefore, when Ben left his home in Seattle, he never intended to return. It was to be a journey past snow–covered mountains to a place of canyons where, on the verges of the Columbia River, Ben had entered the world and would now take his leave of it. What transpired was not the journey he anticipated ...