Tonic and Balm

It's 1919, a time when traveling medicine shows can still find audiences eager to buy miracle "e;cures"e; and watch old-fashioned variety acts. Stephanie Allen's novel Tonic and Balm follows one such troupe, Doc Bell's Miracles and Mirth Medicine Show, as it winds through Pennsylvania, struggling to stay afloat amidst internal discord and dwindling revenues. Doc Bell's Miracles and Mirth Medici...