![]() ![]() ![]() The village turns in on itself, and Brooks explores the ways in which this plays out for good and evil, with sensitive and compelling detail about rural life and relationships in 17th century England. ![]() Anna soon loses her two sons to the plague, and is drawn into the center of the community’s life in isolation as she cares for the sick and dying alongside the rector’s wife. In the novel, we meet 18-year-old widow Anna Frith, a servant to the local church rector. This true story is related in wrenching and beautiful fictionalized detail by Geraldine Brooks, in her book Year of Wonders (which, incidentally, is on the American Library Association’s list of the top 100 banned books in the United States). The village made an unusual decision-they quarantined, to prevent the spread of the disease outside their borders, and they rode out the plague in isolation from the outside world. It had fleas, and they carried bubonic plague, and soon the villagers were dying. In 1665, a tailor in the village of Eyam, in England, opened a bundle of cloth from London. ![]()
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