Iron Lung by Kirstine Reffstrup

Iron Lung

Kirstine Reffstrup with Hunter Simpson (Translator)

265 pages paperback 2023

4 editions

fiction historical literary dark emotional reflective slow-paced
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A girl is struck down by polio during the terrifying epidemic of the early 1950s. Paralyzed and unable to breathe on her own, she is committed to the hospital in Copenhagen and placed in an iron lung. Forty years earlier, a child grows up in an or...

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