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

3.0

I read one third of this book and I have found it to be very insightful and interesting but I am stopping there. Though the book is intriguing and the author really opens up about his evolving acceptance of homosexuality, the dated view of sexual identity kept jabbing at me. I do appreciate the Verghese is writing from a very normative societal view of the mid-80s and appreciate this window into the times, but I am not feeling open to a whole book of it. Still, good stuff is here, very honest writing about the emerging AIDS crisis in America including lots of medical details about treatment. The setting of the book in the rural south is also fascinating though as I read it I imagined everyone wearing a red ballcap. So the did-not-finish label is really all about me and not about this book.