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<b>“Outstanding....Alice Fulton reveals herself to be triumphantly at home in the short story.”—<i>Boston Sunday Globe</i> </b><br><p>In 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. "In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left," Mamie remarks. But her daughters and granddaughter test this notion with far-reaching consequences. Kitty's arsenic reappears sixty years l
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- Author
- Alice Fulton
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393335446
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, United States
- Rating
- 3.58 / 5 (155 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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