The Charon Club

By: Gina Bright

Narrated by: Linda Veneris

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. 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.

©2023 Gina M. Bright (P)2023 Gina M. Bright

Wild ride of a story

It’s amazing when you realize the author was writing this novel BEFORE COVID the parallels between AIDS, Covid, and an existential crisis. It’s fiction that became all too real. Must read.
** new performer has bumps but look forward to more.

interesting diagnostic story

I learned alot as a nurse about how AIDS patients were treated and how to treat everyone with dignity and respect. an interesting discovery process to find the diagnosis and cure.