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

"Daisy Hernández grew up hearing that her Colombian aunt contracted the kissing bug disease, formally known as Chagas, after eating an apple. The parasitic illness wrecked her digestive system, and she died at 59, one of the 10,000 people Chagas kills each year. If you live in the U.S., you might not have ever heard of kissing bugs or Chagas, which is endemic in Latin America. The Kissing Bug, which weaves together family memoir and investigative journalism, seeks to remedy that, raising damning questions about which infectious diseases get attention and whom we believe to be deserving of care."