Description After being pressed into service as a nurse, seventeen-year-old Virginia discovers her innate talent, begins a clandestine romance with her father's Italian assistant, and learns what it truly means to be a modern woman during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.
About the author Sara Fujimura is a young adult author, creative writing teacher, and literacy advocate.
Sara has been fascinated by the Spanish Flu since her college epidemiology class days.
After writing magazine articles about the 1918 pandemic, she incubated a germ of a story idea for Breathe for over a decade.
In 2017, Sara published her first YA book, Tanabata Wish, which is set in Japan.
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