The Pull of the Stars

“That's what influenza means, she said. Influenza delle stelle—the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed.”

This was good. I liked it. That's my review. Also, as a warning, some of the descriptions of prolonged childbirth in an understaffed hospital in 1918 during a pandemic were super graphic and made me a little woozy, and I don't typically get woozy. Bodies are nuts!