City of Incurable Women PB_Gift_Guide From Colombia to Cambodia

From Colombia to Cambodia

Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War

as the neighborhood toilet for dogs on their walks

but were now Union infantrymen setting out to fight their former owners

City of Incurable Women PB_Gift_Guide From Colombia to CambodiaIn 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