College student Elodie Harrington suffers such a frequent barrage of illnesses that she moves into the Brown University infirmary. A doctor becomes convinced he can make his professional mark by cracking her case, but he's entirely unprepared for what he encounters in this novel that explores the contrast between the first frisson of mortality and a life lived in defiance of it.
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College student Elodie Harrington suffers such a frequent barrage of illnesses that she moves into the Brown University infirmary. A doctor becomes convinced he can make his professional mark by cracking her case, but he's entirely unprepared for what he encounters in this novel that explores the contrast between the first frisson of mortality and a life lived in defiance of it.
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