Join us in person at the library (in the Margaret Knoll Gardner Lecture Room) for a lively discussion of Fever by Mary Beth Keane.
Fiction. A novelization of the life of Mary Mallon, the first known healthy carrier of typhoid in North America, who spent much of her life in quarantine after infecting the families she cooked for in New York City in the early 1900s.
Copies can be borrowed on interlibrary loan or purchased at Let’s Play Books, an independent Emmaus bookstore. Also available on Hoopla as an audiobook.
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Coming in January: My Brilliant Career, by Miles Franklin.