02271cam a2200349 i 4500 560685290 TxAuBib 20220616120000.0 211031s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022015559 9781982120382 HRD 27.99 198212038X HRD 27.99 (OCoLC)1281585631 TxAuBib rda Leary, Ann, author. The foundling : a novel / Ann Leary. First MarySue Rucci/Scribner hardcover edition. New York : MarySue Rucci Books/Scribner, 2022. viii, 320 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "It's 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She's immediately in awe of her employer--brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women's suffrage. Now, at age forty, Dr. Vogel runs one of the largest and most self-sufficient public asylums for women in the country. Mary deeply admires how dedicated the doctor is to the poor and vulnerable women under her care. Soon after she's hired, Mary learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is one of the inmates. Mary remembers Lillian as a beautiful free spirit with a sometimes-tempestuous side. Could she be mentally disabled? When Lillian begs Mary to help her escape, alleging the asylum is not what it seems, Mary is faced with a terrible choice. Should she trust her troubled friend with whom she shares a dark childhood secret? Mary's decision triggers a hair-raising sequence of events with life-altering consequences for all."--Amazon. 20220616. jz. Psychiatrists Fiction. Mentally ill women Fiction. Asylums Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Historical fiction.