Susan Annah Currie is a former academic librarian, having worked for close to thirty years at Cornell University and SUNY Binghamton University Libraries. In 2009, she was chosen to be the director of the historic Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca, New York.
For readers that enjoy reading first-person narrative novels and
are interested in learning about the history of Mississippi, The
Preventorium provides the same experience in a nonfiction version.
Currie does a fantastic job of providing details that allow the
reader to picture the events during her stay at the preventorium. .
. . Currie's memoir is ideal for public and academic libraries that
look to expand their history, memoir, or Mississippi-focused
collections.--Justin Easterday "Mississippi Libraries"
I've never read a memoir that compares to The Preventorium in terms
of subject. After reading Currie's book, I'm convinced of the
urgency of remembering this period and the hard work her memoir
does towards that goal.--Melissa Oliveira "Hippocampus"
The Preventorium presents a forgotten and unique aspect of
Mississippi's and the nation's history: the institutionalization
and caring for children in response to a plague. It is a vivid,
compelling account of an extremely challenging and formative
experience. Susan Annah Currie's own erudition and careful
self-examination of memory and of history form a narrative that is
remarkable in its precision and depth.--Leslie Daniels, author of
Cleaning Nabokov's House
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