The Pest Collection
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ISBN13: 9798311302197
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 28 2025
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 28 2025
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At the turn of the 20th century, former southern slave Wenonah Kipp knows all too well what it's like to be treated as less than human. When she gains employment as a housekeeper at the rural Beggar Ticks Lunatic Asylum in Rhode Island, she discovers that ignorance and cruelty are universal. There in the small asylum, Wenonah finds a new family among the collection of inmates, which includes an opium-addicted church deacon, a delusional hatmaker suffering from mercury poisoning, a woman who hasn't spoken since she was accosted as a child, and a beautiful, syphilitic, former prostitute. Wenonah's employment at the asylum leads her to find camaraderie, acceptance, friendship - and a forbidden love that could destroy her life.
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