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“... east of the Mississippi. Even today, in the tourist brochures of Johnson City (the location for Verghese’s story), the percentage of the population who are non-white is listed to reassure prospective visitors (7.2 per cent, for the record). Tourism trades happily on this humiliating past. Henning, the birthplace of Alex Haley; the Lorraine ...”

“... being diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 36. That essay, ‘How Long Have I Got Left?’, Abraham Verghese writes in his foreword to this book, ‘was simply stunning. The prose was unforgettable.’ The book itself had much the same effect. ‘There was an honesty, a truth of writing, that took my breath away. Be ready. Be seated,’ ...”