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Fever (2013)

door Mary Beth Keane

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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.… (meer)
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A good plot of combined fact and fiction, the background Keanu develops puts recent medical history in a human perspective ( )
  schoenbc70 | Sep 2, 2023 |
What a horrid, selfish, stubborn woman Typhoid Mary was! ( )
  kwskultety | Jul 4, 2023 |
This is historical fiction about Mary Mallon - the infamous Typhoid Mary. It's full of historical events of the late 19th and early 20th century - the sinking of the Titanic, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the widespread, uncontrolled use of addictive drugs like heroin and morphine to control pain and then developing restrictions on them, and of course, the science that tormented a healthy woman who couldn't believe she was the source of a dangerous disease in others. This is my favorite kind of historical fiction, one that humanizes a woman we have been told to automatically disdain and emphasizes the misogyny of men who oppress her. And it's a good story, 5 stars from me. ( )
  Citizenjoyce | May 26, 2023 |
You know, something changed in the last five years where I went from devouring every historical fiction novel I could get my hands on to kind of sighing at them and testing every page to see if it was boring or not. I think it's because I hit a few duds; when I do hit the good ones, it's really the historical aspects that I love about them.

This is no ASK AGAIN, YES (which, the more I think about it, the more I retroactively adore.) This is still quite solid and I can quite clearly see where her writing was evolving to, but I feel like the characters aren't quite as drawn out. I wanted more from the relationship with Alfred... because that was kind of a driving factor, and the scene where they met set the grounds for this, but there was little followup to that. But the parts I loved were her life as a boarder, and hearing about her finding work with various families and employers in early 1900s New York.

Very solidly 3.5. ( )
  whakaora | Mar 5, 2023 |
The story of Mary Mallon (typhoid Mary). Very interesting as to the attitudes and science of the day. I listened to this on audio and the reader had just the right Irish lilt and told Mary's story in first person. A delightful book! (9 hours 53 mins=401 pages) ( )
  Tess_W | Feb 16, 2023 |
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Keane evokes the atmosphere of the bustling and booming New York of the time to life as she details both Mary’s day-to-day life and the work of “sanitation engineer” Dr. George Soper, who uses basic detective work and the scientific method to trace the infections back to her. It’s this “one-two punch” the makes the novel so compelling.
toegevoegd door KelMunger | bewerkLit/Rant, Kel Munger (Jun 11, 2013)
 
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--Mary Mallon's headstone
St. Raymond's Cemetery
Bronx, New York
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The day began with sour milk and got worse. You were too quick, Mary scolded herself when the milk was returned to the kitchen in its porcelain jug with a message from Mr. Kirkenbauer to take better care. He was tired, Mary knew, from the child crying all night, and moaning, and asking to be rocked. And he was worried. -Prologue, 1899
Mary wasn't arrested right away. There were warnings. Requests. It all started with an air of courtesy, as if Dr. Soper believed that if he simply notified her of the danger lurking inside her body she would excuse herself from society. -Chapter One
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Each day's new garbage got trampled underfoot by the crowds, and when the city sweepers came with their wispy brooms on Tuesday mornings it was like using a teaspoon to empty beaches of sand.
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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.

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