Through the story of her aunt, who died of Chagas, Daisy Hernández raises damning questions about which diseases get attention and whom we believe to be deserving of care.
Tin House: 330 pages, $27
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During this year of upheaval, uncertainty and deep grief, ideas about what makes a home have obsessed us. Babies spent a year inside, teens rarely left their bedrooms, parents took care of three and four generations of family. Some people chafed at their inability to leave a residence; others burrowed more deeply into the space between walls. The precarious nature of shelter was everywhere around us tents, shopping carts, encampments hidden under bridges and in the woods.
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