The Pest Collection

By Kelly J. Sullivan

At the turn of the 20th century, former southern slave Wenonah Kipp knows all too well what it's like to be treated as less than human. When she gains employment as a housekeeper at the rural Beggar Ticks Lunatic Asylum in Rhode Island, she discovers that ignorance and cruelty are universal. There in the small asylum, Wenonah finds a new family among the collection of inmates, which includes an opium-addicted church deacon, a delusional hatmaker suffering from mercury poisoning, a woman who hasn't spoken since she was accosted as a child, and a beautiful, syphilitic, former prostitute. Wenonah's employment at the asylum leads her to find camaraderie, acceptance, friendship - and a forbidden love that could destroy her life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F2ZXQ1K8
• ISBN13: 9798311302197
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"