Jen Maybe’s Reviews > The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time > Status Update

"Along the riverbanks, rows of soot-stained rectangular houses leaned into the narrow Flemish streets like drunks in blackface." The flourish gets in the way of the facts a bit in this one, and the writer's flair for the dramatic makes an already dramatic story seem embellished. This might not be the plague book I was looking for.