Description: Daisy Hernâandez tells the story of how poverty, racism, and public policies have conspired to keep a rase disease called Chagas hidden, and how the disease intersects with Hernâandez's own identity as a niece, sister, and daughter; a queer woman; a writer and researcher; and a citizen of a country that is only beginning to address the harms caused by Chagas and the dangers it poses.
Brief description:
Daisy Hernández is a former reporter for the New York Times and has been writing about the intersections of race, immigration, class, and sexuality for almost two decades. She has written for National Geographic, NPR's All Things Considered and Code Switch, the Atlantic, Slate, and Guernica, and she's the former editor of Colorlines, a newsmagazine on race and politics. Hernández is the author of the award-winning memoir A Cup of Water under My Bed and coeditor of Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. She is an associate professor at Miami University in Ohio.
Review Quotes:
"Hernández expertly skates the line between memoir and science tome, showing the personal effects of a disease perpetuated by a cascade of systemic failures."
-- "Washington Post"