It\'s 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.
As Halle tries to warm her father\'s coldness and learns to trust the girls and women of the hospital, and as she and her mother battle a disease that once paralyzed the country, a profound message of strength, hope, and healing emerges.
Set in the fully realized world of a 1930s hospital, it offers a tender glimpse into a historical epidemic that has become more relatable than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Light and Air deals tenderly and insightfully with isolation, quarantine, found family, and illness.
But when Mama suffers a lung hemorrhage, their entire future--and recovery--is thrown into question....
Free of her worried and difficult father for the first time in her life, she slowly discovers joy, family, and the healing power of honey on the children\'s ward, where the girls on the floor become her confidantes and sisters.
But it is not, Halle learns, a prison.
Tucked away in the woods of upstate New York, the hospital is a closed and quiet place.
Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from family, far from the world.
But what happens when you actually have it? When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned--and then they are sent to the J.
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Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness.
It\'s 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation
