The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

by Daisy Hernández

Book Overview

Who does the United States take care of, and who does it leave behind? A necessary investigation of infectious disease, poverty, racism, and for-profit healthcare-and the harm caused by decades of neglect.

Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hern ndez 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1951142527
• ISBN13: 9781951142520
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.5"