![]() ![]() ![]() But when parents and uncle all died in a flu epidemic, the 13-year-old girl was taken to an orphanage and eventually adopted by the sexually abusive Mr. The daughter of an Abenaki woman and a white man, she was subject to mysterious fits that her Indian uncle identified as “the dreamer’s gift,” proof that she would be a leader and healer. In the hospital library, Alba has discovered letters in which Mary explains herself to her son Peter. ![]() As the story of their relationship’s bumpy progress is told, so is the tragic story of Mary Doherty, committed to the asylum in 1933. This time, she meets heroin addict Oscar Jameson, self-committed under pressure from his long-suffering younger brother, and sparks fly. In the spring of 2003, manic-depressive Alba Elliott is admitted for the umpteenth time since she was 15, when she set fire to her house after her father gave up her newborn son for adoption. Maine’s posh Abenaki Hospital for the psychiatrically afflicted and drug-addicted takes its name from an Indian tribe that once offered refuge to white women whose behavior their husbands and society could not tolerate. The author of, most recently, of In the Country of the Young (2000) again weaves a realistic romance in with a supernatural background. ![]()
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