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Selection for 2024-2025
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease
by Daisy Hernánde
Our selection for 2024-25 is Daisy Hernández’s The Kissing Bug, a top 10 best nonfiction book of 2021 – Time Magazine and selected for the National Book Foundation’s Science & Literature. Hernández’s own family story inspired the book. After watching her aunt endure a painful yet unnamed disease for decades, Daisy spent seven years researching and uncovering the facts of the invisible Chagas disease.
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