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

4.0

I enjoyed this book and found it to provide helpful context to the HIV work I do now. Verghese is a very good writer and though it took me over a year to finish this book, I would still characterize myself as enthralled. However, Verghese's homophobia grated on me throughout this text, culminating in rage when he commented that many gay men who were sexually abused as children were likely sexually precocious youth who enjoyed the encounters. Just can't hang with that sorta nonsense. Homophobia aside, this book offers an important telling of the early HIV/AIDS epidemic in the rural US.