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

4.0

A beautiful memoir about the experiences of a young doctor working with AIDS patients in a small town in Tennessee, just as people were beginning to learn about the epidemic (and were still relatively ignorant about it.) His patients’ stories, and their strength and pain slowly begin to fill his world, even as his commitment to them begins to create distance in his marriage.