Blood Flow, a pow­er­ful new mem­oir by Lar­ry Bograd, opens with two life-alter­ing events, decades apart. Fac­ing triple bypass surgery at age fifty-three, Lar­ry finds him­self unable to escape the shad­ow of his father Nathan’s death two weeks after Larry’s Bar Mitz­vah. What begins as a son’s search for answers about his physi­cian father’s sui­cide grows into a deep­er explo­ration of fam­i­ly ties, trau­ma, grief, and the chal­lenge of heal­ing a dam­aged heart.