She must also fight the tide of panic and fear raging in the city – and within herself. Over the course of the novel, Mattie will experience intense personal loss and come face-to-face with death. It's kind of like the set of one of those apocalyptic movies, except, of course, it's all really happening. Once known for its brotherly love, Philadelphia is transformed into a nightmare of orphaned children, unscrupulous thieves, and mass unmarked graves.
The outbreak of yellow fever, though, creates a dire situation (not at all related to hormones) in the city she calls home. Her body is changing, she can't stand the sound of her mother's voice, and she has a mega crush on a cute painter guy named Nathaniel Benson.
Mattie is, for the most part, just a normal teenager.
Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever, 1793 is a novel about a fourteen-year-old girl named Matilda "Mattie" Cook who comes of age during the infamous yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.
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