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The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

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Winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection

Finalist for New American Voices Award and Lammy Award for Bisexual Nonfiction

A TIME, NPR, Chicago Public Library, Science for the People, WYNC, WBUR Radio Boston, and The Stacks Podcast Best Book of the Year

Longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award

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Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an ap...