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Tracy Kidder
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born
November 12, 1945
in New York, New York, The United States
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Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
  4.20 avg rating — 20,138 ratings
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2003
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21 editions
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Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
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2000
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The Soul of a New Machine
4.01 avg rating — 1,227 ratings
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1981
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13 editions
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Among Schoolchildren
3.83 avg rating — 973 ratings
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1989
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House
3.89 avg rating — 822 ratings
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1985
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Home Town
3.68 avg rating — 618 ratings
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1999
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Old Friends
3.82 avg rating — 255 ratings
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1993
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My Detachment: A Memoir
3.39 avg rating — 211 ratings
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2005
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The Best American Essays 1994
by Tracy Kidder , Robert Atwan 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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1994
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The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders
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1974
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“How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.”
― Tracy Kidder
― Tracy Kidder
“And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.”
― Tracy Kidder, Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
― Tracy Kidder, Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
“Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.”
― Tracy Kidder
― Tracy Kidder
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