Pages & Pressings

As someone with a degree in public health, this book is so important. I’m so happy to see a disease be tackle from multiple perspectives— objective fact (bacterium) but also subjective experiences. It’s so important that we understand the hand that racism and white supremacy has on disease that gets understated as it becomes a burden on impoverished POC communities. Absolutely brilliant.

I was deeply moved by the connection John Green had with Henry Reider, a Sierra Leonean boy struggling with antibiotic resistant tuberculosis. Henry’s story shows how health inequities have a negative global impact on the impoverished despite the fact that tuberculosis can cheaply be eradicated if companies were focused on health rather than wealth.

This book was incredibly well-researched, and I love how the author put further reading at the very end allowing the reader to gain more insight on the topic. Tuberculosis is a disease that many first-world countries think of as something that has happened far in the past, but people today still contract tuberculosis and many don’t have the money or the means to receive treatment.

I would recommend this book to absolutely everyone! The information is very accessible and easy to follow, and I believe we should all consider perspectives from people that live different lives from us like in Henry’s case.