num_pages: 352
description: My Own Country is the extraordinary story of an Indian physician who settled in a rural town in Tennessee as a young doctor to AIDS patients. This is a book about illness and treatment, about how a small community reacts to the advent of AIDS, about doctor-patient relationships, the body in decline, the ritual of examination, and how Verghese, as a doctor, coped with the inevitability of death. Verghese creates, beyond the jargon of medicine, a lyrical and haunting language unique in this genre, and provides a narrative both rich, absorbing and above all, moving.
language: English
title: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS
titlecomplete: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS
genres: Medicine, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Science, Health, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Medical, History
ratings_count: 11647
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Biography/Autobiography, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )