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Myla Goldberg
Wickett's Remedy (Doubleday) Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season, tiptoes toward an acknowledgement of her dark vision. She has written a novel in which almost every character dies in the 1918 influenza epidemic--and their ordinary lives, in general, are no picnic...
By Michael Silverblatt • • 30m ListenWickett's Remedy
(Doubleday)
The author of Bee Season tiptoes toward an acknowledgement of her dark vision. Myla Goldberg has written a novel in which almost every character dies in the 1918 influenza epidemic--and their ordinary lives, in general, are no picnic. Since Goldberg is a hopeful person, how did her work turn so grim?
Read an excerptfrom Wickett's Remedy.