Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Anna Frith is a widow with two small children who is living in a small mountain village in England, when an infected bolt of cloth from London brings the plague. The local minister encourages villagers to isolate themselves so as to keep the plague contained.
The is the story of what transpired in The Year of Wonders, during a time of unbelievable anguish as whole families were wiped out, of burying the dead, having sermons in a field so parishioners would not need to be too close to one another, of courage and cowardice and greed; as seen through the eyes of Anna.
The inspiration for this book came when Geraldine Brooks visited Eyam, Derbyshire, England where in 1666 the villagers quarantined themselves with the plague. It left her with questions, as her book did with me: What if this were to happen in this day and age with something so deadly…how would we handle it, especially if, like Anna, we do not know the cause of it even as it is staring us in the face? Check out this book at Karen’s Store.