After The Apple: Women And Power

Is her sister's strategy a better response to human suffering-"to provide bandages and medicine and vaccinations for men and women who are bleeding and suffering on the other side of the world"? Burkett's Penny Plain, blinded as an indirect consequence of eating too many apples as a young girl, calmly awaits the end with George, her dog, who aspires to be human, although a highly contagious virus is wiping out the earths population.