Abraham Verghese’s My Own Country. It’s a wonder-ful memoir of his time as an infectious disease doctor in rural Tennessee as the AIDS Epidemic comes to his small town in the 1980s. It’s intimate and up close and heartbreaking yet touches a wellspring of humanity and care. As he left Tennessee he headed with his family to Iowa City, where I live, which was a nice connection. The last line of the book is "I remember the acts of human kindness that illumine our world."