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Suffering from writer's block, Alma finds herself enamored of a story involving Isabel, director of La Casa de Expósitos, who selected twenty-two orphan boys to be live carriers of the smallpox vaccine in 1803.
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2007Saving the World (Shannon Ravenel Books)A Shannon Ravenel Book · 400 pages · 9781565125582
- Other · English · 2011Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 384 pages · 9781616201029
Married people, fictionAids (disease), fictionFiction, historicalFiction, psychologicalFiction