by Marcia Meier Jennifer Lunden In her genre-crossing literary mystery, American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life, Jennifer Lunden crafts a story that interweaves wide-ranging threads such as chronic illness, environmental pollution, chemical sensitivity, and the history of a little-understood illness that was questioned […]

American Breakdown: Crafting a Literary Mystery & Memoir