In my view, this book is a generous demonstration of mentorship that I am delighted to include as a dimension of the professional identity formation I seek to promote in my medical students.  By means of rich and moving stories, Frank shares with his readers a deep concern over communicative inadequacies rampant in medicine, as well as his concern over the de-humanizing, de-moralizing impact of these inadequacies. His approach is to construct a “reflecting team”—a persona composed of Marcus Aurelius, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Emmanuel Levinas—which he names the “Dialogical Stoic.” From this persona, he draws philosophical and literary insight in order to read well and think with stories of physicians and patients, discern the generosity demonstrated in those stories, and discover, through them, a way out of the debilitating tunnel we’ve created for ourselves.  In the process of our shared reflection, we also encounter one of the more appropriately sophisticated and helpful accounts of empathy that I’ve come across.  This and the culminating “exercises” for “training” in the development of generosity are invaluable for the project of professional identity formation, in my view—as is the generous mentorship, overall, of Arthur Frank in his offering of this book.