In perhaps her most ambitious novel to date, Diane McKinney-Whetstone transports the reader to Philadelphia in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, and to the area's quarantine hospital, the Lazaretto. She moves seamlessly from the secret rooms of a noted midwife, to a struggling orphanage for indigent white boys; from the homes of Philadelphia’s well-to-do black families, to back-street gambling parlors. She intertwines the fates of orphan brothers—one brother commits a violent … Read More