The Woman with the Cure by Lynn Cullen

The Woman with the Cure by Lynn Cullen

"Huge applause...women havealwaysbeen in science-despite those who would pretend otherwise." --Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry

She gave up everything - and changed the world.

A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe.

In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world's best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god.

But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure. Applying the same determination that lifted her from a humble background as the daughter of immigrants, to becoming a doctor -often the only woman in the room--she hunts down the monster where it lurks- in the blood.

This discovery of hers, and an error by a competitor, catapults her closest colleague to a lead in the race. When his chance to win comes on a worldwide scale, she is asked to sink or validate his vaccine-and to decide what is forgivable, and how much should be sacrificed, in pursuit of the cure.

Lynn Cullen is the author of the young adult novel The Creation of Eve, as well as a number of other critically regarded children's books. She currently resides in Atlanta with her husband, where she is working on her second novel.

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ISBN 13	9780593438060
ISBN 10	059343806X
Title	The Woman with the Cure
Author	Lynn Cullen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2023-02-21
Number of pages	432
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