City of Incurable Women PB_Gift_Guide Adrea Theodore’s debut picture book

Adrea Theodore’s debut picture book is a powerful testament to the past as well as a benediction for the future

America teeters on the brink of war

as the neighborhood toilet for dogs on their walks

Her decision echoes for years after the war

City of Incurable Women PB_Gift_Guide Adrea Theodore’s debut picture bookIn a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignoredCity of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteriaand the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty. Sigrid Nunez, author of The