My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese

My Own Country: A Doctor's Story

Abraham Verghese

448 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative sad medium-paced
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By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exem...

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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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