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The Air We Breathe

The Air We Breathe

Barrett, Andrea

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Mystery & ThrillerHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1324065990
ISBN13: 9781324065999
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Sep 5 2023
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war--but in the town of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. From within their isolated community, they grapple with some of the most thrilling scientific discoveries of their time--X-ray technology, chemical and biological weapons, changing theories of atomic structure--and their limitations. Prisoners of routine, they take solace in gossip, rumor, and, sometimes, secret attachments. When the well-meaning efforts of one enterprising patient lead instead to a tragic accident and a terrible betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice. With The Air We Breathe, Andrea Barrett has crafted a majestic, breathtaking, [and] thrilling (San Diego Union-Tribune) novel that brilliantly illuminates the inescapable heartbreak of war.

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