Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn t worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, her view of the matter was quite different. Huber s irreverent and affecting memoir of navigating the nation s health-care system brings an awful and necessary dose of reality to the political debates and...
Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were brac...
The old neighborhood was the place that Joe Mackall left. It was a place where everyone s parents worked at the factory at the dead end of the street, where the Catholic church operated like a religious city hall, and where he grew up vowing to get out as soon as he could and to shed his blue-collar beginnings and failed, flawed religion.
When the mysterious death of a childhood friend draws him back to the last street before Cleveland, however, he discovers that there is more to old haunts than mere words and more to severing one s roots than just getting away.
The...
The old neighborhood was the place that Joe Mackall left. It was a place where everyone s parents worked at the factory at the dead end of the stre...
