Myla Scores Another Winner

Sun, 09/25/2005 - 6:30pm by muffy

Myla Goldberg, who gave us the "perfect" Bee Season returns with a historical novel set in South Boston during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.
Irish working-class Lydia Kilkenny married the frail, well-to-do Henry Wickett who promptly quitted his medical studies to develop a health-giving elixir (the eponymous Remedy). Historical events such as America's entry into World War I and the Flu provide the catalysts that drive the plot but it is Goldberg’s skill as a novelist that stitches together the various pieces of a structurally complex novel, creating smooth, durable, barely-there seams that makes Wickett’s Remedy “sorrowful, humorous, tender (and) utterly satisfies” . ~ Starred Review , Library Journal.

Myla Goldberg’s well-researched, “rich,…(and) absorbing” masterpiece “evokes memories of E.L.Doctorow’s classic Ragtime and Steven Millhauser’s Pulitzer-winner Martin Dressler.” ~ Kirkus Reviews. 75,000 first printing.