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Saving the World

by Julia Alvarez

Married people, fictionAids (disease), fictionFiction, historicalFiction, psychologicalFictionExpedición Marítima de la Vacuna (1803-1810) (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004017848 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n2004017848Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna fast (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01410362

Suffering from writer's block, Alma finds herself enamored of a story involving Isabel, director of La Casa de Expósitos, who selected twenty-two orphan boys to be live carriers of the smallpox vaccine in 1803.

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