Everything you need to understand or teach The Kissing Bug by Daisy Hernandez.
In Daisy Hernández's The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease, after Hernández's Tía Dora dies from the kissing bug disease, Hernández becomes determined to demystify the baffling illness. For years following her aunt's death, Hernández travels around the Americas in search of answers and explorations. Though she tries to separate her research from her family's story, every new discovery returns her to the immigrant women who raised her and their mythologies. At once narrative and investigative, The Kissing Bug explores themes including grief, family, and inequality.
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