Daisy Hernández, THE KISSING BUG: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

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🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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New York Times journalist and author of the memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed, Daisy Hernández, joins Zibby to talk about her latest book, The Kissing Bug, which was inspired by her own family's story. After watching her aunt endure a painful yet unnamed disease for decades, Daisy spent seven years researching and uncovering the facts of the invisible Chagas disease. She shares how weaving together investigative reporting with her own memories was not only important for her personal grieving process but essential to so many readers who have been touched by this under-discussed illness.

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0:45.7	Kids. Here's a little snippet by one of the authors from the anthology. My name is Emily Liebert,
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0:56.5	My essay is called My Father Immortal, and what I really don't have time for is inauthentic people.
1:03.6	Daisy Hernandez is the author of The Kissing Bug, a true story of a family, an insect, and a nation's neglect of a deadly disease.
1:10.7	Daisy is a former reporter for the New York Times and has been writing about the intersections
1:14.6	of race, immigration, class, and sexuality for almost two decades.
1:18.6	She has written for the National Geographic, NPR's All Things Considered, and Code Switch.
1:24.0	The Atlantic, Slate, and Gwarnica, and she's the former editor of Color Lines and News Magazine on Race and Politics. In addition to her most recent book, The Kissing Bug, Hernandez is the author of the award-winning memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed, and co-editor of Colonize This, Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. She is an associate professor at Miami University in Ohio.
1:44.9	Welcome, Daisy. Thank you so much for coming on moms and have time to read books to discuss
1:49.0	The Kissing Bug, a true story of a family, an insect, and a nation's neglect of a deadly disease.
1:54.8	Thanks for having me. It's my pleasure. Daisy, you are a beautiful writer. I know that you know
1:59.7	this. I know you've been a reporter forever and a
2:01.6	journalist and New York Times and all the rest. But this was like from the first sentence, like
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