The Assembler of Parts a Novel

"<Div>Raoul Wientzen, a graduate of both the college and medical school of Georgetown University, is a pediatrician and taught pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases for more than thirty years at Georgetown University Hospital. He is currently the medical director of the Rostropovich Foundation. He and his wife have four children and live in Arlington, Virginia. </div>"@en
"While in heaven reviewing her short life with the help of the Assembler of Parts, 8-year-old Jess, who was born with a syndrome of birth defects, discovers the true meaning and purpose of her life after her death unleashes events beyond her control."
"From the start of this extraordinary first novel, eight-year-old Jess finds herself in heaven reviewing her short life. She is guided in this by a being she calls the Assembler of Parts, and her task, as she understands it, is to glean her life's meaning. From birth, it was obvious that she was unlike other children: she was born without thumbs. The Assembler left out other parts too, for she suffers from a syndrome of birth defects that leaves her flawed. But soon it becomes apparent that by her very imperfections she has a unique ability to draw love from-and heal-those around her,"@en