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A review by nferre
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese
5.0
"Everyone thought it had been a freak accident, a one-time thing in Johnson City. This was a small town in the country, a town of clean-living, good country people. AIDS was clearly a big city problem. It was something that happened in other kinds of lives."
Cutting for Stone has been one of my favorite books for years, but I was reluctant to read this memoir as I usually find memoirs anything but memorable. But this book grabbed me and hooked me before I had turned the first page. Two doctors had read this and highly recommended it as being accurate and worthy. I found the book to be highly readable, compassionate, literate and informative.
Verghese's thoughts on the evolution of HIV and how a small town in Tennessee handled the influx of AIDs patients is insightful and introspective, his narrative humane. He lets us into his life as a foreign doctor struggling to fit in and understand his changing community as well as his battle to balance the death toll surrounding him and his outside family and life.
Cutting for Stone has been one of my favorite books for years, but I was reluctant to read this memoir as I usually find memoirs anything but memorable. But this book grabbed me and hooked me before I had turned the first page. Two doctors had read this and highly recommended it as being accurate and worthy. I found the book to be highly readable, compassionate, literate and informative.
Verghese's thoughts on the evolution of HIV and how a small town in Tennessee handled the influx of AIDs patients is insightful and introspective, his narrative humane. He lets us into his life as a foreign doctor struggling to fit in and understand his changing community as well as his battle to balance the death toll surrounding him and his outside family and life.