Fever

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Typhoid Mary: a selfish monster, or a hounded innocent

They called her Typhoid Mary. They believed she was sick, that she was passing typhoid fever from her hands to the food that she served. They said she should have known.

But Mary wasn't sick. She hadn't done anything wrong.

She wasn't arrested right away. There were warnings. Requests. And when she was finally taken, she did not go quietly. Branded a murderer and condemned by press and public alike, Mary continued to fight for her freedom, no matter the cost...

Fever casts a brilliant light over the life of a figure once described as 'the most dangerous woman in America', and Mary Beth Keane's fictional account is as fiercely compelling as Typhoid Mary herself.

Author Bio

Mary Beth Keane attended Barnard College and the University of Virginia, where she received an MFA. She was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing, and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society. She is the author ofThe Walking People,Fever, andAsk Again, YesaNew York Timesbestseller and a Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Summer Reads Pick.Ask Again, Yeshas been sold in twenty-two languages. She lives in New York with her family.