The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald

254 pages first pub 1948 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir funny informative sad medium-paced

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Tuberculosis. A terrifying word, as terrifying then as cancer is now. It meant entering a sanatorium for treatment, leaving her family, her children. And what if she did not recover? Hardly the basis for comedy, one would suppose. And one would be...

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