Mary Beth Keane

The triumphant New York Times Bestseller *The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick* Named one of the Best Books of the Year by People, Vogue, Parade, NPR, and Elle "A gem of a book." --Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo How much can a family forgive? Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind closed doors in both houses--the loneliness of Francis's wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian's wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come. In Mary Beth Keane's extraordinary novel, a lifelong friendship and love blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next thirty years. Heartbreaking and redemptive, Ask Again, Yes is a gorgeous and generous portrait of the daily intimacies of marriage and the power of forgiveness.

The triumphant New York Times Bestseller *The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick* Named one of the Best Books of the Year by People, Vogue, Parade, NPR, and Elle "A gem of a book." --Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo How much can a family forgive? Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind closed doors in both houses--the loneliness of Francis's wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian's wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come. In Mary Beth Keane's extraordinary novel, a lifelong friendship and love blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next thirty years. Heartbreaking and redemptive, Ask Again, Yes is a gorgeous and generous portrait of the daily intimacies of marriage and the power of forgiveness.

Basada en la verdadera historia que conmovi a la sociedad neoyorquina de principios del siglo xx. En 1883, con apenas quince a os, Mary Mallon abandon Irlanda para forjarse un futuro en Nueva York. Valiente y obstinada, logr cumplir el sue o de convertirse en cocinera, ascendiendo desde los m s bajos escalafones del servicio dom stico. Con el tiempo, y gracias a sus aptitudes culinarias, se la disputar an las familias aristocr ticas de Nueva York. Pero esa independencia, tan infrecuente para una mujer de su poca, resulto poco duradera. Mary hab a dejado un rastro de fiebre tifoidea en las casas donde trabajo. Cuando un ingeniero sanitario la identific como la primera portadora asintom tica de la enfermedad, es decir la primera persona que sin desarrollar la enfermedad puede contagiar a otra, Mary pas a ser conocida como Mary Tifoidea , a un tiempo persona c lebre y mujer vilipendiada por infectar a miembros de las mejores familias. Gracias a la inspirada recreaci n de Mary Beath Keane, Mary Tifoidea se convierte en una fascinante hero na. Su historia, tan asombrosa como ver dica, resulta inolvidable. Un enternecedor y detallado retrato del colapso de la ignorancia ante la verdad ...] Una gran novela .- The New York Times Book Review En las h biles manos de Keane, Mary Mallon se convierte en un personaje comprensible, complejo e inspirador. Fiebre no es s lo una atractiva novela para lectores interesados en los misterios m dicos, tambi n conmover a quienes hayan sufrido alguna vez las consecuencias de los rumores y la hipocres a . - O, The Oprah Magazine MARY BETH KEANE naci en Nueva York de padres irlandeses. Estudi en Barnard College y en la Universidad de Virginia, donde obtuvo su maestr a en Ficci n. En 2011, fue nombrada una de las mejores autoras de menos de 35 a os por la National Book Foundation.

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," who becomes, "in Keane's assured hands...a sympathetic, complex, and even inspiring character" (O, The Oprah Magazine). Mary Beth Keane has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever. On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life she'd aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined "medical engineer" noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an "asymptomatic carrier" of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman. The Department of Health sent Mallon to North Brother Island, where she was kept in isolation from 1907 to 1910, then released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. Yet for Mary--proud of her former status and passionate about cooking--the alternatives were abhorrent. She defied the edict. Bringing early-twentieth-century New York alive--the neighborhoods, the bars, the park carved out of upper Manhattan, the boat traffic, the mansions and sweatshops and emerging skyscrapers--Fever is an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. In the imagination of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes a fiercely compelling, dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable heroine.

A bold, mesmerizingly told story about the woman known as 'Typhoid Mary' and once described as 'the most dangerous woman in America'

Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living. Though she longs to return and show her family what she has made of herself, her decision to spare her children knowledge of a secret in her past forces her to keep her life in New York separate from the life she once loved in Ireland, and tears her apart from the people she is closest to. Even fifty years later, when the Ireland of her memory bears little resemblance to that of present day, she fears that it is still possible to lose all when she discovers that her children--with the best of intentions-- have conspired to unite the worlds she's so carefully kept separate for decades. A beautifully old-fashioned novel, The Walking People has remarkable range and power.