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A death-struck year

Pages
282
Published
2014
Language
English

Synopsis

In 1918, as the Spanish influenza epidemic sweeps through Portland, Oregon, seventeen-year-old Cleo leaves her comfortable boarding school. She joins the Red Cross, stepping into a world forever changed by the devastating illness. Cleo must navigate the challenges of the pandemic while finding her place in a society grappling with widespread loss.

How it reads

Prose complexity 4/10
Content warnings (1)
Trauma

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