
About this book
During World War I, after an impulsive night with an infected soldier, Frieda Mintz, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl, is sent to a makeshift detention center for medical treatment with other "charity girls" in similar circumstances.
Subjects
Government policySexually transmitted diseasesQuarantineFictionPatientsPrevention & controlHistoryPopular WorksWomen patientsHistory, 20th CenturyUnited states, fictionFiction, medical