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

How Long Does it Take to Read The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 As heard on Fresh Air Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases. Even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of Chagas, a rare and devastating illness that affects the heart and digestive system. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas?or the kissing bug disease?is more prevalent in the United States than the Zika virus. After her aunt’s death, Hernández began searching for answers. Crisscrossing the country, she interviewed patients, doctors, epidemiologists, and even veterinarians with the Department of Defense. She learned that in the United States more than three hundred thousand people in the Latinx community have Chagas, and that outside of Latin America, this is the only country with the native insects?the “kissing bugs”?that carry the Chagas parasite. Through unsparing, gripping, and humane portraits, Hernández chronicles a story vast in scope and urgent in its implications, exposing how poverty, racism, and public policies have conspired to keep this disease hidden. A riveting and nuanced investigation into racial politics and for-profit healthcare in the United States, The Kissing Bug reveals the intimate history of a marginalized disease and connects us to the lives at the center of it all.

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

The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández is 277 pages long, and a total of 71,189 words.

This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 87% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 29 minutes to read The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease aloud.

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

The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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