Description: The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives.
Brief description: Donald Fithian Stevens is an associate professor of history at Drexel University. He is the author of Origins of Instability in Early Republican Mexico.
Review Quotes: A creative study of intimate and interior lives.--Farren Yero, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies