Fever

Fever
Authors
Janet Gilsdorf
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Date
2022
Size
1.03 MB
Lang
en
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From acclaimed author and Professor Emerita of Pediatrics and Epidemiology Janet Gilsdorf comes a captivating and timely novel about a young doctor's quest to uncover the cause of a mysterious disease killing young children, and the race to find a cure.In 1984, in the small Brazilian village of Promiss#227;o, a young child begins to fuss, her eyes turning pink and her skin flushed with heat. Four days later, she's dead.Sidonie Royal, an accomplished physician and scientist, arrives in the small Brazilian village of Promiss#227;o to investigate and hopefully cure this insidious new disease. With several young children already dead, and more getting sick by the day, the stakes cannot get any higher.But Sid's personal life is also in flux, as she struggles to balance a complicated relationship with her boyfriend, Paul, pressure to start a family from her well-meaning mother, conflict with her surly but brilliant coworker named Eliot, and a budding...