Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Best Book in the Category of Relationships (the link takes the reader directly to the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award website, where my book appears in a listing of winners.)

Chrysalis BREW Project Readers’ Choice Award 

(this link takes the reader directly to the review on the BREW website.)

“Reflective, candid, restorative. There is a well-established idea in developmental psychology that early experiences shape not just behavior, but interpretation—how we explain our own lives to ourselves. This book reads like a long, deliberate act of reinterpretation. A farm boy grows into a physician, but more importantly, into someone willing to revisit his past with unusual honesty. The result is not a dramatic reinvention, but something subtler: a recalibration. Its reflective tone reminds me of writers like Henri Nouwen, and at times it sounds like the grounded storytelling of Paul Kalanithi. However, it stays true to its own voice.”

5-star Editorial Review from The Book Revue

(this link takes the reader directly to the review on The Book Revue website.)

“Michael Skoch writes in a way that feels direct, almost conversational. It’s not polished or overly structured, and that works in its favor. The stories feel like they’re told as they come, not arranged to impress. That looseness makes the more emotional moments feel less forced. Some parts feel rough, but that honesty gives them weight.
By the end, it doesn’t feel like you’ve read a traditional memoir. It feels more like you’ve listened to someone think out loud about their life and what it all meant. It’s worth reading if you want something that feels real, even when it’s a bit uneven, maybe especially then.”