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“Leadership, religiosity, power structures, and science collide…Withith Wright’s signature humorous tone, this is a grim but engaging look at some of humanity’s most feared foes.” Bust magazine
“Wright brings a reliably sane and bitingly funny voice to a topic we never realized we wanted to know so much about: historically devastating plagues!” Nylon magazine
“It would be all too easy to read this book about devastating diseases with a basso profundo voice of doom…Instead, narrator Gabra Zackman follows the author’s lead and takes a lighter tone. She is especially effective at capturing the author’s use of irony and occasional expressions of incredulity. This makes the narrative flow more easily and keeps listeners engaged.” AudioFile
“Narrator Gabra Zackman does a wonderful job accentuating the tongue-in-cheek aspects of these riveting accounts and will leave listeners with the impression that some ancient plagues were better handled than modern ones.” Library Journal (audio review)
“This well-researched book is a disturbing, hard-to-put-down reminder that Mother Nature can be a fierce adversary.” Booklist
“The author’s prose is jaunty, lively, and filled with references to contemporary cultural history, making this work a well-researched page-turner. Readers will get an intense dose of history, written in a not-hard-to-swallow style.” Library Journal
“Wright…adopts a lighthearted approach…to delivering sociologically oriented descriptions of history’s greatest epidemics…Wright urges readers to heed history’s lessons and to be thankful for vaccines, hygiene, and antibiotics.” Publishers Weekly
“Wright has done her homework…Wright has covered a lot of medical territory with good information.” Kirkus Reviews
“Jennifer has a rare ability to make history funny, titillating, and relevant…Her passion and enthusiasm jumps off the page and makes…Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them, a most compelling and important read.” Lit Up