![]() As returning prodigal sons came home to the Smoky Mountains with the then-new affliction, Verghese - in his first job out of medical school - was the one to meet them, to treat them, and to guide them through the emotional and social challenges of living with and dying of AIDS in the heart of redneck country. His first book, My Own Country, named one of the best books of l994 by numerous critics and Time magazine, told the story of how this African-born Indian physician helped rural Tennessee families face the dawning of the age of AIDS. For people trying to figure out how to live in a world half-ruined by sad epidemics - AIDS, drug addiction, divorce - as well as the ordinary corrosive action of human weakness, the work of Verghese is mission-critical. For my money, you will find no "book of virtues" like the deceptively unassuming memoirs penned by medical doctor Abraham Verghese. So much of the discussion about what it means to be a good person in this world has been taken over by strident numbskulls, from William Bennett to Jesse Helms to Dr.
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