The Book Prize Index

Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution

Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, Caroline Brewer

"Anna is the daughter of Americans working in Cairo. But she feels more at home with the humble family of her friend Layla, who lives in the doorman's shack adjacent to Anna's apartment building. As the women grow up, their unlikely friendship is put to the test as they each face a family health crisis. Gulfs of misunderstanding emerge as Anna deals with her family history of breast cancer and Layla makes difficult decisions about her father's kidney failure"--

Medicine & Public HealthMedicine & Public Health · medium confidenceMedicine & Public Health81 signalsLlm Classifier: Medicine & Public Health -> Medicine & Public HealthKeyword Classifier: Gender & Sexuality -> Gender & SexualityTopic Classifier: Gender & Feminism -> Gender & SexualityGender & FeminismMedicine, Health & the BodyPublic Health SystemsFamily, Childhood & Adoption

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Anthropology and Sociology2018WinnerOfficial source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Layla42%
    • Anna41%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    45 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 46%.