{"product_id":"the-kissing-bug-paperback","title":"The Kissing Bug - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaisy Hernández\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy 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 diseases. Even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of Chagas, a rare and devastating illness that affects the heart and digestive system. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas--or the kissing bug disease--is more prevalent in the United States than the Zika virus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her aunt's death, Hernández began searching for answers. Crisscrossing the country, she interviewed patients, doctors, epidemiologists, and even veterinarians with the Department of Defense. She learned that in the United States more than three hundred thousand people in the Latinx community have Chagas, and that outside of Latin America, this is the only country with the native insects--the \"kissing bugs\"--that carry the Chagas parasite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough unsparing, gripping, and humane portraits, Hernández chronicles a story vast in scope and urgent in its implications, exposing how poverty, racism, and public policies have conspired to keep this disease hidden. A riveting and nuanced investigation into racial politics and for-profit healthcare in the United States, \u003cem\u003eThe Kissing Bug\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the intimate history of a marginalized disease and connects us to the lives at the center of it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaisy Hernández\u003c\/b\u003e is a former reporter for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and has been writing about the intersections of race, immigration, class, and sexuality for almost two decades. She has written for \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR's \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCode Switch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, and she's the former editor of \u003ci\u003eColorlines\u003c\/i\u003e, a newsmagazine on race and politics. Hernández is the author of the award-winning memoir \u003ci\u003eA Cup of Water Under My Bed\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eColonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e. She is an associate professor at Miami University in Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43153746165823,"sku":"9781953534194","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-kissing-bug-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}