Myla Goldberg "Wickett's Remedy"

A young working-class woman from South Boston marries a medical student on the eve of World War One, and figures the world is about to become her oyster, in Myla Goldberg's much-anticipated second novel Wickett's Remedy. The first complication comes when her husband Henry announces he's quitting medical school. What follows is a period of tragedy, in a story that takes us up to the present day.