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Title: Not for Faint of Heart
Review: This book is not for the faint of heart. Geraldine Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has written a deeply vivid historical novel about an English village, circa 1666, coping with the Plague. The story is loosely based on a real village that voluntarily cut itself off from the surrounding countryside rather than spread the disease; a disease the villagers didn't understand in the least. Consequently superstition competes with practical compassion in the self-imposed cauldron of brutality and gruesome death. The writing is magnificent, drawing upon the vocabulary of the time. If you're brave enough to read this book, you won't soon forget the drama, or fail to appreciate the wonders of modern medicine.
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