Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg

Author:Myla Goldberg [Goldberg, Myla]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-49317-0
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2006-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Frances Messinger swears on wormwood.

As she turned to face the deserted street, she made a decision. The notion had occurred to her after her mother had barred her from the house, but Gorin’s shuttered window gave her the license and the resolve. She walked the length of West Broadway, all the way to Dorchester, and then on toward Telegraph Hill.

Jonah Siles cured his wife by placing a shotgun beneath her bed, the magnetism of which drew out her fever.

On arriving at Carney Hospital, the sight of white canvas tents filled with patients and stretching in orderly rows across the lawn banished the doubts that had trailed her from West Broadway. Her instinct—informed by her memory of the overcrowded clinic and the hospital hallways lined with beds—was correct: the situation had grown worse. She never would have imagined tents here, but the sight was unexpectedly comforting. Michael had been quartered inside a tent.

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