Normal: A Chaplain a Community with Hiv/Aids and the Eternal Life of Stories

This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy autopathography (illness narratives) and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS. Trained as both an ethnographer and a chaplain Audrey Elisa Kerr uses memoir to bridge the relationship between caregiver and patient and allows stories of marginality to frame both her patients stories and her own. Audrey Elisa Kerr is a professor of English Literature at Southern Connecticut State University with a special interest in oral history ethnography and memoir. She is the author of The Paper Bag Principle: Class Conspiracy and the Case of Black Washington DC. She served people with HIV/AIDS as a chaplain for five years.