When I was nine, my mother brought home something remarkable. A young woman, I think a graduate student in my father’s lab, followed her into our bathroom. Soon the smell of formaldehyde wafted into the living room. The next day, my mother, wearing a denim button-down shirt with embroidered Looney Tunes characters over the breast…
Catherine L. Evans
Catherine L. Evans is the author of Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law.