{"product_id":"wicketts-remedy-9781400078127","title":"Wickett's Remedy","description":"Lydia Kilkenny is eager to move beyond her South Boston childhood, and when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy Boston Brahmin who plans to become a doctor, her future seems assured. That path changes when Henry abandons his medical studies and enlists Lydia to help him invent a mail-order medicine called Wickett's Remedy. Then the 1918 influenza epidemic sweeps through Boston, and in a world turned upside down Lydia must forge her own path through the tragedy unfolding around her. As she secures work as a nurse at a curious island medical station conducting human research into the disease, Henry's former business partner steals the formula for Wickett's Remedy to create for himself a new future, trying--and almost succeeding--to erase the past he is leaving behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlive with narrative ingenuity, and tinged with humor as well as sorrow, this inspired recreation of a forgotten era powerfully reminds us how much individual voices matter--in history and in life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMyla Goldberg is the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eBee Season\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book in 2000 and made into a film, and, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eTime's Magpie\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of essays about Prague. Her short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003efailbetter\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967062835474,"sku":"9781400078127","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e1c46a55-1189-4050-96c3-747d6490fc60.jpg?v=1768923573","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wicketts-remedy-9781400078127","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}