"Huge applause... women have always been in science despite those who would pretend otherwise. --Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry

She gave up everything and changed the world.

A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe.

In 1940s and 50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its ...