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The Charon Club by Gina Bright

The Charon Club

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Gina Bright, Gina M. Bright

Running Wild Press · Ebook · September 5, 2023

The AIDS Quilt will be on display in June 2021 for the 40th anniversary of the first cases, but it will be its last appearance as ordered by the heavy hand of the President of the United States.

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Who it’s for
Nine nurses revisit AIDS-era care while confronting an emerging infectious disease in 2021.
Genres
Medical Fiction, Gay Fiction
Published
Running Wild Press, September 5, 2023

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About this book

The AIDS Quilt will be on display in June 2021 for the 40th anniversary of the first cases, but it will be its last appearance as ordered by the heavy hand of the President of the United States. Nine nurses who worked with AIDS patients during the early years of the pandemic travel to Washington, D.C. to see the Quilt.

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While there, they are called upon by the National Health Center to care for patients with a new, unknown infectious disease and racist views, and they are asked to find the clues to its cause so that a VIP patient can be cured. But the nurses discover that even more challenging than this difficult assignment are the memories they begin to share from their painful AIDS nursing past. The Charon Club, a fictional chronicle of AIDS nurses’ memories and experiences, set in the midst of an emerging infectious disease in the eastern United States in 2021, was written by a nurse who worked on an AIDS unit in New York City during the darkest years of the pandemic. It is the first AIDS novel solely devoted to the work of nurses.

AIDS Nursing Memories

Nine nurses revisit AIDS-era care while confronting an emerging infectious disease in 2021.

Come here for

  • Nine nurses’ memories of early AIDS care
  • The AIDS Quilt on display in Washington, D.C.

Expect

  • A fictional chronicle set in the eastern United States
  • Nurses asked to trace a new disease’s cause

Where it sits

Medical Fiction88%
Gay Fiction47%

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Publisher categories

  • Lives in Medicine
  • Personal Memoirs
  • HIV & AIDS
Authors
Gina Bright, Gina M. Bright
Publisher
Running Wild Press
Published
September 5, 2023
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Lives in Medicine