![]() The narrator’s skepticism is over-the-top in the beginning. For Anna, during this watch, each day had to pass like one endless moment.” “How could the child bear not just the hunger, but the boredom? The rest of humankind used meals to divide the day, Lib realized– as reward, as entertainment, the chiming of an inner clock. As the first week turns into the second, Lib questions what she thought she knew, what her job requires, and how far a caretaker should go to ensure her patient’s health. Lib expects to have discovered the trick to the ruse within a matter of hours, or days at most, but instead she encounters many surprises. Lib and another nurse have been called in to watch over the child every moment of every day for two weeks, to set the public straight at last on whether or not any morsel of food is passing into Anna O’Donnell’s mouth. She has fans and believers knocking on the door every day, but there are skeptics as well, and even worse, the folk who accuse the family of terrible trickery or abuse. ![]() Anna, the “miraculous” child who claims to have been surviving for four months without food, has been generating a lot of attention. Here I am, checking another last-minute item off my 2017 reading challenge with Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder.Ībout the book: Nurse Lib Wright trained under the famous Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War, but three years later her career has come down to spending two weeks with an impoverished family in Ireland, making sure an eleven year-old girl doesn’t eat. ![]()
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