Mary Beth Keane (Get this book) A fictional portrait of Typhoid Mary, the Irish immigrant cook who spread disease and death among the cramped, unsanitary streets of turn-of-the-century New York. Opening with the arrest of Mary Mallon in 1907, Keane moves back and forth across several decades to flesh out the famous plague carrier's character against a detailed social panorama. A memorable biofiction that turns a malign figure of legend into a perplexing, compelling survivor--Kirkus
