A pre-WW2 American humorist contracts TB and "writes about her seclusion in a way that is painfully, barkingly funny" (Lissa Evans, The Guardian).

"Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can't even remember where you were going."

Thus begins Betty MacDonald's memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the "White Plague." MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium -- making all of us laugh in the process.

"Improbably funny... equally remarkable." ?Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

"Can you imagine writing a whole book about being forbidden to do anything other than lie in bed? But Betty does, and she somehow makes it a riveting chronicle." ?Lory Widmer Hess, Emerald City Book Review

"An appetizing, well-seasoned feast. MacDonald's sharp, witty observations as she spends almost a year in The Pines Clinic, outside of Seattle, are perfectly pitched... with a huge dollop of idiosyncratic humour... MacDonald is an impressive and engaging storyteller." ?Jules Morgan, The Lancet

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