Presents a historical account of the influenza epidemic that began on an army base near Boston in 1918 and swept through the U.S., claiming the lives of over 600,000 victims.
After Lyza's mother dies of influenza in 1918, she must protect her eccentric father, who runs the risk of being committed due to his claim that he is waiting for the return of his dead wife, and find her own path in the process.
Living in the shadow of a Texas cemetery, twelve-year-old Winnie Grace struggles to keep the Spanish influenza of 1918 from touching her family--her coffin-building father, her troubled mother, and her two baby sisters.