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“It’s vinegar saved her”: folk medicine, food, and the flu in A Time of Angels
Rachel Conrad BrackenRootstown, Ohio, USA The publication of Karen Hesse’s young adult novel, A Time of Angels (1997), coincides with a renewed interest in the history of the 1918–1919 “Spanish flu” pandemic and a proliferation of multidisciplinary studies of contagion and culture.1 Yet A Time of Angels is also a novel about food and folk medicine…