City of Incurable Women PB_Gift_Guide Her decision echoes for years

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City of Incurable Women PB_Gift_Guide Her decision echoes for yearsIn 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