Wickett’s Remedy by Myla GoldbergDoubleday, 2005

Such a pleasing novel, a story of Boston in the early 20th century, Boston in the influenza epidemic of 1918, bits of the past and bits of the present, songs and newspaper articles, how different people see the same events, and oh, streetcars and accents and imagining how streets were different a hundred years ago, the theatres of Scollay Square where Government Center is now.