The Nightingales of Troy

Alice Fulton

earliest edition we have, 2008 W. W. Norton, 2008 hardcover 256 pages

"In 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. "In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left," Mamie remarks. But her daughters and granddaughter test this notion with far-reaching consequences. Kitty's arsenic reappears sixty years later in the hands of her distraught niece. A schoolgi...

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Nightingales of Troy edition · 2010 · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 256 pages · 9780393079500
Nightingales of Troy edition · 2009 · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 256 pages · 9780393335446
The Nightingales of Troy hardcover · 2008 · W. W. Norton · 256 pages · 9780393048872

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