A review by amandadelbrocco
Fever by Mary Beth Keane

4.0

I enjoyed this fictionalized version of the story of Typhoid Mary. I found it fascinating as I knew nothing of her before reading this. I would have liked for this to have been told from multiple perspectives, as it would have been told very differently from the point of view of Soper. The author wrote Mary's perspective very well in my opinion, and whether it's right or wrong from the scientific point of view, I definitely felt very sorry for her and irate

Spoiler

that though she was the first asymptomatic carrier of this disease, they found multiple others and she was the only one that they locked up, presumably because she was an unmarried woman of which they did not approve. I did feel less sorry for her though when she determined that baking was different than cooking somehow, although I understood where she was coming from financially.