Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

June's book was suggested by Peter and accepted in April's meeting.

198 pages, very in stock at IndyPL. John Green is an Indianapolis based author and this is his most recent book, published in mid-March.

I read this shortly after it was published and think it's pretty good - it's a nonfiction from Green but with his usual narrative style and a human connection to the disease that he is writing about. This feels like a book that combines the best of Green's desire to write stories that matter and his lived experience (or more-than-casually knowing others' lived experience) of some problem or another.

That this disease is particularly metaphorical and historical and reflective of our social understanding of disease is all icing on the cake here for a novelist like Green.

From Goodreads:
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.

In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.

In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
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Interested in suggesting a book? Bring it up to me at a meeting (or after by Meetup messages) and we can talk about it, if it sounds like it will fit I will add it to the list to be voted on by the group. There are some genre, content and page length restrictions but we're down to give most things a shot.

I have made a Google Doc that people can view to publicize the current set of suggestions see my notes on them. I've included an introduction to make it clear what I look for, how I suggest books and how to interact with the system.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bpxyKJlZC08MduYEdX8_uOBWu_FpIqJh2NxwFsMHfIA/edit?usp=sharing