The Village Voice, April 23rd, 2002
Brooklyn's Starving Wonder
THE FASTING GIRL
By Michelle Stacey
Tarcher/Putnam, 336 pp., $23.95
Every cultural journalist dreams of unearthing a historical figure whose dramatic life story is a flash point for social issues of an era, and Michelle Stacey has found one in Mollie Fancher, In 1865, after 18year-old Fancher was accidentally dragged by her crinolines from the back of a horsecar, she was put in bed to recover and stayed there for the next halfcentury. During this time she claimed not to eat for more than a decade and experienced trances, clairvoyance, and something like multiple ...
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