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

5.0

This is an excellent memoir by an infectious disease physician about his experience working in a Tennessee community in the mid to late 1980s when the AIDS crisis was coming to a head. I love Dr. Verghese's style of writing, and I found his "political incorrectness" to be so refreshing in his observations. He is not American, so you can't accuse him of having our American racism or prejudices. He just describes it as he sees it. I thoroughly enjoyed this memoir and will read his other memoir next. I read his one work of fiction a couple of years ago and loved it as well.