Hunter’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

Will you let me know what you think? I’m interested in reading this book

Definitely read it. Science books tend to be either pretty dry, or totally sanded down for a pop audience, in kind of a patronizing way. This is neither. Green’s background as a YA novelist combined with his real passion for the subject makes this book easy to read and learn from without being talked down to. It is somewhat surface level, but still full of good stories and some nuance.

Thanks Hunter!!

You know my grandmother had tuberculosis as a kid and lived in a sanatorium for years. They wound up doing this experimental surgery on her where they depressed the infected portion of each lung with lucite balls to keep it from spreading. But she basically had it her whole life I guess. Her wound from her mastectomy also got infected with it which was pretty scary. And of course hers was antibiotic resistant.

So it’s a subject close to my heart.

That’s very interesting! I’m so sorry she had to go through all of that.

Yeah me too. She was a pretty impressive woman. I think she spent at least most of the war in the sanatorium.

But she told me once that when boys would see the scars on her back she’d tell them that’s where they removed her angel wings. And I was like “GRANDMA! How and why were boys seeing those scars?!” She never answered that.

Haha that's great!