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Celebrated by critics and awarded one of canadas top literary prizes, bloodletting is a masterful, smart and engaging debut collection of short stories. Overview historical influences synopsis of novel thesis historical influences cultural influences autobiographical influences conclusion lams historical influences regarding past epidemics, disease. Bloodletting and miraculous cures is an astonishing literary debut, a collection of mature and intricate stories connected through the relationships that develop among a group of young doctors as they move from the challenges of med school to the intense world of emergency rooms, evac missions, and terrifying new viruses. Synopsis characters ming themes fitzgerald old fashioned cultural influences lead to relationship struggles in modern times chen sri her family, she said, was modern in what they wanted for her.
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