In a sea of tragically well-known accounts of the early years of the AIDS crisis, Dr Abraham Verghese's story gives readers a surprisingly fresh take. My confess Country deals with the plague not as it hobbl major U urban center still as it gradually lodged itself in the conservative consciousness of rural east Tennessee An added twist is that the author is Indian with distinctly immigrant sensibilities. Newly married and revived from a string of internships and residencies, Verghese goe to Tennessee in the mid-1980s. There, as an infectious disease
