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    612-822-4611

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Wickett's Remedy

Wickett's Remedy

Goldberg, Myla

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1400078121
ISBN13: 9781400078127
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Oct 10 2006
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.26 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Lydia Kilkenny is eager to move beyond her South Boston childhood, and when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy Boston Brahmin who plans to become a doctor, her future seems assured. That path changes when Henry abandons his medical studies and enlists Lydia to help him invent a mail-order medicine called Wickett's Remedy. Then the 1918 influenza epidemic sweeps through Boston, and in a world turned upside down Lydia must forge her own path through the tragedy unfolding around her. As she secures work as a nurse at a curious island medical station conducting human research into the disease, Henry's former business partner steals the formula for Wickett's Remedy to create for himself a new future, trying--and almost succeeding--to erase the past he is leaving behind.

Alive with narrative ingenuity, and tinged with humor as well as sorrow, this inspired recreation of a forgotten era powerfully reminds us how much individual voices matter--in history and in life.

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