"A blistering narrative...this is American history at its best" --Booklist (starred review)
Discover The Black Angels
Winner 2024 Christopher Award
Shortlisted for the English PEN Award
Finalist 2024 Gotham Book Prize
Finalist 2024 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award
NPR Science Friday Best Summer Beach Reads 2024
Booklist & American Library Association Editor's Pick 2023
American Scientist Fall STEM Read 2023
A History Today Best Book of 2023
BBC Two Between the Covers pick by Sandi Toksvig
New York Public Library Black History Month pick
New York Public Library Book of the Day Pick
THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY of the Black nurses
who helped cure one of the world's deadliest plagues: TUBERCULOSIS
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