The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century by Alice Fulton

The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century

Alice Fulton

254 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

fiction literary short stories emotional reflective medium-paced

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In 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. "In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left," Mamie remarks. But h...

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