Julie Chibbaro
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Coming in February 2011
A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping turn-of-the-century New York. Every week more people fall ill, and despite thorough investigation, there's no cause in sight. It's not until the city's most unlikely scientist - sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski - takes a job as an assistant in a laboratory that the evidence begins to fall into place. It seems one person has worked in every home the fever has ravaged: Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant dubbed "Typhoid Mary" by the press. Strangely, though, Mary hasn't been sick a day in her life. Is the accusation against her an act of discrimination? Or is she the first clue in a new discovery bound to change medical history? 
UK paperback version
Now Lily and her mother are in danger, and they face persecution for being followers of a man excommunicated by the church. Their one chance for freedom is to take passage on the next ship to the New World. Hopeful that her father might still be alive, Lily persuades her mother to flee. Their harrowing voyage reveals painful secrets that strip Lily of her innocence. But it also gains her a friend, a boy named Ethan, son to none other than the baron himself. Together Ethan and Lily navigate their way through the treachery of a strange new land. Lost in the wilderness and captured by an Indian tribe, Lily must reach deep inside herself and tap into a strength she never knew she had if she is to survive.
Read my short stories Skin and Fractal Swing in the anthology of Prague writers The Return of the Kral Majales.
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