β Katrina Kahler; John Zakour
π Fiction
π
2017
π English
β 452 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
Saving the World
β Scribed by Julia Alvarez
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Year
- 2005;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 276 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of developing countries and wants her help on an extended AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him: the publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a bit later.
The truth is that Alma is seriously sidetracked by a story she has stumbled across. It's the story of a much earlier medical do-gooder, Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis, who in 1803 undertook to vaccinate the populations of Spain's American colonies against smallpox. To do this, he required live "carriers" of the vaccine.
Of greater interest to Alma is Isabel Sendales y GΓ³mez, director of La Casa de ExpΓ³sitos, who was asked to select twenty-two orphan boys to be the vaccine carriers. She agreed-- with...
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