Upon learning to be a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear-fear of the federal government, the medical establishment, and what is in your son or daughter’s air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She discovers that you cannot immunize your son or daughter, or yourself, through the globe.In this vivid, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its own implications for the individual and the cultural body. As she hears increasingly more doubts about vaccines, Biss researches what they imply for her own child, her immediate community, America, and the world, both historically and in the present moment. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire’s Candide, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Susan Sontag’s AIDS and its own Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is normally a moving account of how we are all interconnected-our body and our fates.