Lucille cook fever 1793 dumped at door3/16/2024 Once again, I am enchanted by a fantastic piece of young adult historical fiction. Mattie struggles to stay alive, in the hopes of being reunited with her mother. Chaos ensues as Mattie is forced to flee with her grandfather. Suddenly, people begin falling ill, and before long an epidemic of the yellow fever has hit the city. Mattie helps her mother around the house, and in their coffee house, which is the family business. However, she reluctantly goes along when Lucille insists that it’ll be good for business if she meets wealthy men like them.The year is 1793, the capital is Philadelphia, and the country is in its infancy. Mattie hates Pernilla’s snobby daughters Colette and Jeannine, and doesn’t share Lucille’s desire that she marry an Ogilvie son because they’re snobs who don’t appreciate her love for books or her passion for social justice work at the Cook Coffeehouse. One day, a neighborhood aristocrat invites Mattie and Lucille to tea. A couple of weeks later, many have died from the fever, but Grandfather argues that it’s nothing to be concerned about. Mattie takes over Polly’s duties in the coffeehouse, hearing her beloved Grandfather debate with customers about rumors of a yellow fever outbreak in the city. But then Mother interrupts again to tell Mattie that Polly has died suddenly of a fever. While she’s working in the garden she daydreams about running businesses someday and meeting Nathaniel Benson, who she likes. Mattie reluctantly gets up and helps out in the coffeehouse with her friend Eliza, who feeds her breakfast before sending her outside to tend to the garden. She’s late for work at the coffeehouse because their serving girl Polly has died from a fever. In August of 1793, 14-year-old Matilda “Mattie” Cook is awakened by her mother, Lucille Cook.
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