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The Women Are Not Fine

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The women in Nagyrev are desperate. They are suffering. The Women Are Not Fine brings together newspapers, court documents and police records to explore "one of the biggest mass poisoning events in modern history" when midwife Zsuzsanna Fazekas arrived at the village of Nagyrév in Hungary in 1911. When Fazekas began listening to the problems women were having at home, she offered a solution - arsenic - and a group of women, who became known as the "Angelmakers", began poisoning their husbands. Nearly 20 years later, it had turned into an epidemic, spiraling into the greatest poisoning case of the 20th century. In 1929, after an anonymous letter was sent to a newspaper in a nearby town, Szolnok, a police investigation unearthed 50 graves; 40 showed signs of arsenic poisoning. But estimates say that up to 300 people in Tiszazug -- a rural region south of Budapest, along the Tisza River -- may have been killed. Nagyrév was dubbed "the murder district" of Hungary. More than 100 women were held in Szolnok prison, charged with murder.

Author Biography:

Hope is a journalist writing for The New York Times, Shondaland, Vox, and dozens of other publications. She covers subjects ranging from culture to politics to technology and is a featured author in the Verso Books collection, Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo: A Verso Report. She is the author of a forthcoming book, The Women Are Not Fine, which will be published by Brazen Books in May 2025.
Release date NZ
April 10th, 2025
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Pages
304
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
ISBN-13
9781840918403
Product ID
38264584

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