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Read With Us: The Winter Selection Announcement

December 3, 2019 By Carole

Hello my reading friends! I am happy to join with Kym and Bonny today and tell you that the next book for Read With Us is Fever by Mary Beth Keane. I haven’t read it yet but I think it sounds terrific. Here, I’ll share the Good Reads summary with you:

Mary Beth Keane, named one of the 5 Under 35 by 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.

On 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.

The 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.

Bringing 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, Fever is 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.

We picked this book for a number of reasons, carefully considering the length and availability from the library, as well as the subject matter and discussion topics and I think we have chosen well. As for the timeline, you have December and January to get this read and we will discuss it in February. You can expect us to mention it now and again before then but we are mindful that this is a busy time of year for everyone and we don’t want to overwhelm you with book stuff when you might not have the time to consider it.

I hope you’ll join us for part two of our online book club, it’s definitely a group effort and we need YOU to make this a success.

 

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  1. Bonny says

    December 3, 2019 at 7:51 am

    I think (hope!) we chose well, and hope you find the book without a long wait!

  2. Vera says

    December 3, 2019 at 8:34 am

    As I said on Bonny’s blog, this looks really interesting and…a hard copy is available at my local library!!

  3. Maggie says

    December 3, 2019 at 10:13 am

    Interesting… new to me author. I just finished her book Ask, Again Yes… and looked up what other books she has written and Fever came up……

  4. Kym says

    December 3, 2019 at 10:18 am

    I’m eager to start reading this one!
    🙂

  5. Debbie says

    December 3, 2019 at 10:22 am

    I look forward to reading this!

  6. Kat says

    December 3, 2019 at 10:38 am

    Of course the wait on Overdrive is insane… wth?? LOL I am excited to read this one!

  7. Becky says

    December 3, 2019 at 10:51 am

    I have put this book on hold this morning at the library. Although it is not available, I should get it in plenty of time. Thanks for letting us know far enough in advance to get it. That is very thoughtful, and I appreciate it. I am looking forward to reading it! As I told Bonny, I hope your weather is not as bad as it looks on the news. Have a good Tuesday!

  8. Patty says

    December 3, 2019 at 11:22 am

    Just bought on Audible and I’ll ready for January! And she wrote Ask Again Yes! Thanks Carole, Kym and Bonny!

  9. Sarah says

    December 3, 2019 at 12:19 pm

    I’ve put a hold on it at the library; now I just have to hope that the wait time is actually less than the six weeks the app is saying (especially because I think this sounds like a great vacation read)!

  10. Mary says

    December 3, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    I’m second in line at the library – love having so much advance notice!!

  11. margene says

    December 3, 2019 at 3:44 pm

    There are plenty of copies available in SLC both book and audio form. I’m set!

  12. JudyH says

    December 3, 2019 at 6:04 pm

    Sounds very interesting.

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