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S'està carregant… The Medicine Woman of Galveston (edició 2024)de Amanda Skenandore (Autor)
Informació de l'obraThe Medicine Woman of Galveston de Amanda Skenandore
Sense etiquetes Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  sweetbabyjane58 | Apr 13, 2024 |   From medical school in Chicago with double trauma and shame, to having a young son with physical limitations, to being deep in debt and fired from a sweat shop, to reluctantly joining a travelling medicine show. Her PTSD has taken the form of Trichotillomania and Hemophobia. Despite having an MD license, she has no desire to ever do a surgical procedure again but is roped into sham performances to sell snake oil/nostrums. She becomes friends with the other nonstandard people working for the charlatan as they travel onward with the eventual destination of Galveston just before the historic hurricane. Well written with just the sort of characters and behaviors you'd expect. I really enjoyed the story and the well researched history. I requested and received a free temporary EARC from Kensington Books via NetGalley.Thank you! Pub Date 21 May 2024 (  ) jetangen4571 | Apr 9, 2024 | We meet Dr. Tucia Hatherley when she is really on the down and out, trying to work in a factory and take care of her handicapped son, but she is ripe for a con man to take more advantage of her. We meet Huey and the band of troopers, or performers, and we travel with his medicine show, and soon learn what they and Huey have in common. The author gives us a bit of everything, including some sweet romance, a hurricane, and some very unscrupulous people. This quickly became a page turner, and will be looking for more by this author! I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Kensington, and was not required to give a positive review. ( ) alekee | Dec 23, 2023 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
A downtrodden female doctor takes up with a traveling medicine show to support her disabled son, joining a German giantess, a bowlegged musician, an indentured Creek poet, and a handsome tinker under the thumb of a charismatic but menacing swindler on a collision course with the deadliest natural disaster in American history - the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Readers of Christina Baker Kline, Sandra Dallas, and Sara Donati will be captivated by this story of medical historical fiction by Amanda Skenandore, registered nurse and acclaimed author of The Nurse's Secret and The Second Life of Mirielle West. Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn't touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option--to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and become part of his traveling medicine show. Her medical license lends the show a pretense of credibility, but the cures and tonics Tucia is forced to peddle are little more than purgatives and bathwater. Loathing the duplicity, even as she finds uneasy kinship with the other misfit performers, Tucia vows to leave as soon as her debts are paid and start a new life with her son--if Huey will ever let her go. When the show reaches Galveston, Texas, Tucia tries to break free from Huey, only to be pulled even deeper into his schemes. But there is a far greater reckoning ahead, as a September storm becomes a devastating hurricane that will decimate the Gulf Coast--and challenge Tucia to recover her belief in medicine, in the goodness of others--and in herself. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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I don't think I've ever read a book about medicine traveling shows nor a woman or a doctor in 1900 traveling with one. Tucia was a single mother of a disabled son and a former doctor and in debt. She didn't trust Huey at first but needed her debt paid off so she went with him. To me, he seemed like a shyster and I think she did too.
What a cast of characters. A German giantess, a bowlegged musician, an indentured Creek poet, an Indian, etc. I was enthralled with the performances and as I got to know them, like Tucia, I began to like them even more. She also was a performer and didn't like it but what could she do, it was part of her “contract” with Huey.
I found this medicine show very interesting with the different places they set up and of course the people she interacted with there and the backstories of their lives before. It was not an easy life that's for sure.
Almost at the end when they were in Galveston, TX, a huge hurricane hit and it was chaos and thankfully Tucia was there to help others in need the way she always wanted to be as a doctor. (