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

Abraham Verghese, Abraham Verghese

352 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative sad medium-paced
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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....

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Moods

informative 92%
reflective 81%
emotional 62%
sad 55%
inspiring 44%
challenging 25%
hopeful 18%
adventurous 7%
tense 7%
dark 3%
lighthearted 3%

Pace

medium 61%
slow 26%
fast 11%

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