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DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear Daisy Hernández discuss her book\, “The Kiss
 ing Bug: A True Story of a Family\, an Insect\, and a Nation's Neglect of 
 a Deadly Disease\,” the 2024-2025 One Book\, One U selection for the Uni
 versity of Miami.\n\nNamed by Time magazine as a top 10 best nonfiction bo
 ok of 2021\, and selected as a Finalist for the New American Voices Award 
 and for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature program\, 
 “The Kissing Bug” was inspired by Hernández’s own family story.\n\n
 Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s\, Hernández 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 dis
 eases. Even into her thirties\, she only knew that her aunt had died of Ch
 agas\, a rare and devastating illness that affects the heart and digestive
  system. But as Hernández dug deeper\, she discovered that Chagas—or th
 e kissing bug disease—is more prevalent in the United States than the Zi
 ka virus.\n\nThrough unsparing\, gripping\, and humane portraits\, Hernán
 dez chronicles a story vast in scope and urgent in its implications\, expo
 sing how poverty\, racism\, and public policies have conspired to keep thi
 s disease hidden. A riveting and nuanced investigation into racial politic
 s and for-profit healthcare in the United States\, “The Kissing Bug” r
 eveals the intimate history of a marginalized disease and connects us to t
 he lives at the center of it all.\n\nA question and answer session will fo
 llow the presentation\, and the author will be available to sign the book 
 at the conclusion of the event.
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LOCATION:Kislak Center
SUMMARY:One Book\, One U
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.miami.edu/event/one-book-one-u
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