A review by sydneeelise
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios

informative slow-paced

2.0

This is such an important story to tell, but my low rating comes from the poor quality of writing. The author regularly went on long tangents about topics that weren’t related, like Jackie Robinson, boxing, POWs, the rumpus room of the apartment complex where the nurses lived, etc. So much of the story needs to be preserved in writing, like the exclusion of black nurses from the ANA, the work of the NACGN, and the work the Black Angels did. But their work with the actual TB cure is relegated to the last 90 minutes of the audiobook. This is a very rambling account of a narrative that deserves better. Additionally, the audiobook narrator pronounces many medical terms wrong.