It is heartbreaking to think of all the innocent people who could not receive medical care during such a deadly and tragic epidemic. I have always been bothered by the socioeconomic divide and white privilege. This system of inequality, while historically accurate, was difficult to read. Set in 1918 against the parallel epidemics of the Spanish influenza and an equally terrifying strain of 'superpatriotism,' Cat Winters latest. When the flu hits at its hardest, the immigrant community as well as the African American community do not receive the same access to adequate health care that the white townsfolk receive. Readers who like getting immersed in a historical setting will relish Cat Winters ability to create an almost mesmerizing atmosphere., 'THE UNINVITED is an affecting novel, dark in fiction and in fact. Not only did they face intense scrutiny and unfair treatment, but often these immigrants also had to do deal with the ugly face of poverty. Violence and discrimination are common being anyone of foreign descent during this time period would have been frightening. The town is steeped in anti-German sentiments which places any of German ancestry at risk. The small town is reeling from the death toll of the war and the dreaded disease, but more sinister things are also at play. Twenty-five-year-old Ivy Rowan rises from her sickbed after being struck by the great influenza epidemic of 1918, only to discover that the world has been torn apart in just a few short days. The story takes place in Buchanan, Illinois during the ravages of WWI and the Spanish Influenza. Winters tends to focus her novels in the early 1900's and this one is no exception.
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