![]() The island, as Essie aptly puts it, is “where the incurable sick of New York City are sent to die.” Kramer has chosen an innately creepy setting for her historical novel, where ghosts and mysteries swirl and keep company with assumptions and prejudicial thinking, often directed at immigrants arriving at the island’s Riverside Hospital, of which Essie’s stepfather is the director. ![]() Her outgoing best friend, Beatrice, lives in the same New York tenement and helps draw Essie out of her fearful funks, but even Bea can’t help with Essie’s newest problem: her mother’s sudden announcement that she has remarried and the two of them will be moving into her new husband’s house-on North Brother Island. ![]() ![]() Essie has always been an anxious child, but since her father’s death, her anxieties have spiked to debilitating heights, manifesting as panic attacks, night terrors, and a lengthy list of fears she keeps close at hand. ![]()
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