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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and its People in the Age of AIDS

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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and its People in the Age of AIDS

The memoir and first book from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone.

Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an â€œurban problemâ€ had arrived in the town to stay.

Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brought a singular perspective to Johnson City: as a doctor unique in his abilities; as an outsider who could talk to people suspicious of local practitioners; above all, as a writer of grace and compassion who saw that what was happening in this conservative community was both a medical and a spiritual emergency.

Out of his experience comes a startling but ultimately uplifting portrait of the American heartland as it confrontsâ€”and surmountsâ€”its deepest prejudices and fears.

Country	USA
Author	Abraham Verghese
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781476760469
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2016-11-15
Publisher	Scribner
ReleaseDate	2016-11-15
Studio	Scribner

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