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    "description": "<div class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" data-testid=\"description\">\n<div class=\"TruncatedContent\">\n<div class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\">\n<div class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\">\n<div class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"><span><span><em>Mary Beth Keane,&nbsp;</em></span>named one of the&nbsp;<em>5 Under 35&nbsp;</em>by the National Book Foundation, has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as&nbsp;<span><em>Typhoid Mary,</em>&nbsp;</span>the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Bringing early-twentieth-century New York alive &ndash; the neighborhoods, the bars, the park carved out of upper Manhattan, the boat traffic, the mansions and sweatshops and emerging skyscrapers &ndash;&nbsp;<em>Fever&nbsp;</em>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.</span></div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"\"></div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"></div>",
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