{"product_id":"the-illness-lesson-a-novel","title":"The Illness Lesson: A Novel","description":"A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE\nLONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE\n\n“Astoundingly original.” —The New York Times Book Review\n\nFrom the author of the award-winning debut story collection We Show What We Have Learned, a vivid work of historical fiction with shocking and eerie connections to our own time.\n\nAt their newly founded school, Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, promise a groundbreaking education for young women. But Caroline has grave misgivings. After all, her own unconventional education has left her unmarriageable and isolated, unsuited to the narrow roles afforded women in nineteenth-century New England.\n\nWhen a mysterious flock of red birds descends on the town, Caroline alone seems to find them unsettling. But it’s not long before the assembled students begin to manifest bizarre symptoms: rashes, seizures, headaches, verbal tics, night wanderings. One by one, they sicken. Fearing ruin for the school, Samuel overrules Caroline’s pleas to inform the girls’ parents and turns instead to a noted physician, a man whose sinister ministrations—based on a shocking historic treatment—horrify Caroline. As the men around her continue to dictate, disastrously, all terms of the girls’ experience, Caroline’s own body begins to betray her. To save herself and her young charges, she will have to defy every rule that has governed her life, her mind, her body, and her world.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0385544669\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0385544669.LN\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Like New\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Beams, Clare\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in like new condition. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47651118317745,"sku":"RDV.0385544669.LN","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0385544669-0.jpg?v=1782670564","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/the-illness-lesson-a-novel","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}