The Fever

"...transports modern pandemic survivors into the bedchambers, clinics, and graveyards of a thriving American port laid low by pestilence..." -Earl Swift, author of Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery "Richly reported and eloquently written, this true story transports readers back to 1855, into a raging epidemic that feels eerily prescient." -Lane DeGregory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing In the summer of 1855, the nation c