The Plague and I
by Betty MacDonald
2020-12-29 12:15:27
âGetting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You canât even remember where you ...
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âGetting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You canât even remember where you were going.â Thus begins Betty MacDonaldâs memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the âWhite Plague.â MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatoriumâmaking all of us laugh in the process.
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