{"product_id":"wicketts-remedy","title":"Wickett's Remedy","description":"Lydia Kilkenny is eager to move beyond her South Boston childhood, and when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy Boston Brahmin who plans to become a doctor, her future seems assured. That path changes when Henry abandons his medical studies and enlists Lydia to help him invent a mail-order medicine called Wickett's Remedy. Then the 1918 influenza epidemic sweeps through Boston, and in a world turned upside down Lydia must forge her own path through the tragedy unfolding around her. As she secures work as a nurse at a curious island medical station conducting human research into the disease, Henry's former business partner steals the formula for Wickett's Remedy to create for himself a new future, trying--and almost succeeding--to erase the past he is leaving behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlive with narrative ingenuity, and tinged with humor as well as sorrow, this inspired recreation of a forgotten era powerfully reminds us how much individual voices matter--in history and in life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Myla Goldberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400078127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/29\/2006 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMyla Goldberg is the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eBee Season\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book in 2000 and made into a film, and, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eTime's Magpie\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of essays about Prague. Her short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003efailbetter\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53321729343786,"sku":"9781400078127","price":27.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/4553\/1946\/files\/img_e5dcccbd-0c75-4fb1-8db8-15f949009c99.jpg?v=1793053403","url":"https:\/\/delvanta.shop\/products\/wicketts-remedy","provider":"Whitmore Lane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}