{"product_id":"fever","title":"Fever","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Mary Beth Keane, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAsk Again, Yes\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a historical novel set in early-20th-century New York City about the woman known as \"Typhoid Mary,\" who becomes, \"in Keane's assured hands...a sympathetic, complex, and even inspiring character\" (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the eve of the 20th century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life she'd aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Amid a growing public health panic, a determined \"medical engineer\" noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked and identified her as an \"asymptomatic carrier\" of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Department of Health sent Mallon to North Brother Island, where she was quarantined in isolation from 1907 to 1910, then released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. Yet for Mary--proud of her former status and passionate about cooking--the alternatives were abhorrent. She defied the edict. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing Gilded Age New York City alive--the neighborhoods, the bars, the park carved out of upper Manhattan, the boat traffic, the mansions and sweatshops and emerging skyscrapers--\u003ci\u003eFever \u003c\/i\u003eis an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. In the imagination of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes a fiercely compelling, dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable heroine.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54486595273070,"sku":"9781451693423","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_5dffe2e2-b5a8-43c0-9be5-b2e2460539dc.jpg?v=1786115501","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/fever","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}