The Foundling av Ann Leary

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<B>From the <I>New York Times </I>bestselling author of <I>The Good House</I>, the “harrowing, gripping, and beautiful” (Laura Dave, <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author) story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at an institution—based on a shocking and little-known piece of American history.</B><BR><BR>It’s 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age<I>. </I>She’s immediately in awe of her employer—brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel.<BR><BR>Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women’s suffrage. Now, at age forty, Dr. Vogel runs one of the largest and most self-sufficient public asylums for women in the country.