{"product_id":"9781451693423","title":"Fever: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the early twentieth century—by an award-winning writer chosen as one of “5 Under 35” by the National Book Foundation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Beth Keane, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003enamed one of the \u003ci\u003e5 Under 35 \u003c\/i\u003eby the National Book Foundation, has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the eve of the twentieth 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. Then one 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Department of Health sent Mallon to North Brother Island, where she was kept 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing early-twentieth-century New York 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043475767536,"sku":"9781451693423","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781451693423_p0.jpg?v=1763838190","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781451693423","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}