My Own Country (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Abraham Verghese
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1985-1989
- Setting: Johnson City, Tennessee
- Principal Characters: Abraham Verghese, Rajani Verghese, Gordon Vines, Essie Vines, Clyde McCray, Vickie McCray, Will Johnson, Bess Johnson, Norman Sanger, Ed Maupin, Bobby Keller
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: South or Southerners, Rural or country life, India or East Indian people, AIDS, Viruses
- Locales: Johnson City, TN
My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS is more than a series of case histories or a chronicle of the doctor-patient relationship. It is also an intensely personal story of one man’s search for a sense of belonging and a country to think of as home, and how he finds it, at least for a short while, among his AIDS patients and their families in a small, out-of-the-way corner of the world in rural Tennessee.
Abraham Verghese truly was a man without a home. The child of teachers from southern India, he was born and reared in Ethiopia,...
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