The Kissing Bug

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Daisy Hernández

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Zando
01 June 2021

Biography: science, technology & engineering; Urban communities; Infectious & contagious diseases; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Coping with illness

Winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection

Finalist for New American Voices Award and Lammy Award for Bisexual Nonfiction

A TIME, NPR, Chicago Public Library, Science for the People, WYNC, WBUR Radio Boston, and The Stacks Podcast Best Book of the Year

Longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award

As heard on Fresh Air

Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernandez believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases. Even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of Chagas, a rare and devastating illness that affects the heart and digestive system. But as Hernandez dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas-or the kissing bug disease-is more prevalent in the United States than the Zika virus.

After her aunt's death, Hernandez began searching for answers. Crisscrossing the country, she interviewed patients, doctors, epidemiologists, and even veterinarians with the Department of Defense. She learned that in the United States more than three hundred thousand people in the Latinx community have Chagas, and that outside of Latin America, this is the only country with the native insects-the ""kissing bugs""-that carry the Chagas parasite.

Through unsparing, gripping, and humane portraits, Hernandez chronicles a story vast in scope and urgent in its implications, exposing how poverty, racism, and public policies have conspired to keep this disease hidden. A riveting and nuanced investigation into racial politics and for-profit healthcare in the United States, The Kissing Bug reveals the intimate history of a marginalized disease and connects us to the lives at the center of it all.

By: Daisy Hernández
Imprint: Zando
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 471g
ISBN: 9781951142520
ISBN 10: 1951142527
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daisy Hernandezis a former reporter forThe New York Timesand has been writing about the intersections of race, immigration, class, and sexuality for almost two decades. She has written forNational Geographic, NPR'sAll Things ConsideredandCode Switch,The Atlantic, Slate, and Guernica, and she's the former editor ofColorlines, a newsmagazine on race and politics. Hernandez is the author of the award-winning memoirA Cup of Water Under My Bedand co-editor ofColonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. She is an associate professor at Miami University in Ohio.

Reviews for The Kissing Bug

The engrossing account of a family medical mystery that led to a compassionate investigation of an underattended disease.--Foreword Reviews An engaging, eye-opening read for anyone looking to learn more about the human suffering caused by the collision of a parasite and years of neglect by the United States' medical system.--Kris Newby, author of Bitten Hernandez writes to the heart of the story with immense tenderness, compassion, and intelligence. A riveting read.--Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana Daisy Hernandez knows the impact of Chagas disease all too well. Her aunt died from it, and Hernandez has since been fascinated by how it spreads and what that reveals about how we treat working-class people.--Bitch Magazine The Kissing Bug is a deft mix of family archaeology, parasite detective story, and American reckoning. A much-needed addition to the canon.--Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error

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