![]() So no one connected Mary and typhoid outbreaks. But lots of people got typhoid and died back then, and science was only first discovering that a healthy, asymptomatic person could be a carrier of a disease. A few family members, like the Kirkenbauer child, died. ![]() ![]() You see, many of the wealthy families Mary cooked for came down with the fever. That moment would haunt Mary through her troubled life. Keane's narrative acumen quickly engages readers in Mary's hardscrabble life and fierce personality, starting in 1899 when she served as the cook for the affluent Kirkenbauer family of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.- and had to care for their toddler boy who came down with typhoid fever. ![]() You've probably heard the term, but maybe didn't know the story. Mary Beth Keane's fascinating historical novel Fever re-creates the sadly tragic life of Irish immigrant Mary Mallon, whom history will forever demonize as Typhoid Mary. ![]()
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