City of Incurable Women by Maud Casey [in Shelf Awareness]
21 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
At just 128 pages, Maud Casey's compelling City of Incurable Women – ostensibly a historical novel featuring 19th-century French women institutionalized with diagnoses of hysteria – might invite an expeditious single-sitting read. That sparseness obscures its intricate density: hardly straightforward narrative, City of Incurable Women is a...