Butcher

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    From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women?s asylum in the 19th century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the worldIn this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, ?The Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,? as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a disastrous procedure, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state?women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation. As he begins to establish himself as a pioneer of 19th-century surgery, Weir?s ambition is fueled by his obsessive fascination with a young Irish indentured servant named Brigit, who becomes not only Weir?s primary experimental subject, but also the agent of

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