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Colonial New Orleans, 1769 — a city of heat, ambition, and denial. When yellow fever returns to the French Quarter, no one wants to admit it. Doctors prescribe bloodletting and rum, priests bless the air, and the wealthy flee upriver while the poor are told to pray. Through the eyes of one ordinary resident, witness a city trying to appear civilized as it quietly rots beneath the sugar and smoke.

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