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The Kissing Bug audiobook
- By: Daisy Hernandez
- Narrator: Frankie Corzo
- Category: Social Science, Sociology, Urban
- Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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The Kissing Bug Audiobook Summary
Who does the United States take care of and who does it leave behind? This is a riveting investigation of infectious disease, poverty, racism, and for-profit health care–and the harm caused by decades of silence.
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, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. 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. Today, more than three hundred thousand Americans have Chagas.
Why do some infectious diseases make headlines and others fall by the wayside? After her aunt’s death, Hernandez begins searching for answers about who our nation chooses to take care of and who we ignore. Crisscrossing the country, she interviews patients, epidemiologists, and even veterinarians with the Department of Defense. She learns that outside of Latin America, the United States is the only country with the native insects–the “kissing bugs”–that carry the Chagas parasite. She spends a night in southwest Texas hunting the dreaded bug with university researchers. She also gets to know patients, like a mother whose premature baby was born infected with the parasite, his heart already damaged. And she meets one cardiologist battling the disease in Los Angeles County with local volunteers.
The Kissing Bug tells the story of how poverty, racism, and public policies have conspired to keep this disease hidden–and how the disease intersects with Hernandez’s own identity as a niece, sister, and daughter; a queer woman; a writer and researcher; and a citizen of a country that is only beginning to address the harms caused by Chagas and the dangers it poses. A riveting and nuanced investigation into racial politics and for-profit health care 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.
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The Kissing Bug Audiobook Narrator
Frankie Corzo is the narrator of The Kissing Bug audiobook that was written by Daisy Hernandez
Frankie Corzo is an experienced narrator and actress who spent her childhood performing in theater productions, commercials, films, and voiceovers. Born to Cuban immigrant parents, she narrates and acts in both Spanish and English. Her work has been added to numerous best of lists, including Audible’s for 2017 and 2018. Born and raised in New Jersey, she currently splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.
About the Author(s) of The Kissing Bug
Daisy Hernandez is the author of The Kissing Bug
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The Kissing Bug Full Details
| Narrator | Frankie Corzo |
| Length | 6 hours 55 minutes |
| Author | Daisy Hernandez |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | May 03, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781665020701 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Kissing Bug is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Social Science, Sociology, Urban
Additional info
The publisher of the The Kissing Bug is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781665020701.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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