For several years, Vanderbes traveled around the United States interviewing thalidomide survivors, bringing their stories into the narrative for the first time. This dramatically changed the course of the book. Frances Kelsey - the FDA Medical Reviewer who fought to keep the dangerous drug off the American market - Vanderbes began to research the American side of the story, which had never fully been written about.įollowing an immersive investigation-uncovering Kelsey’s extensive public and personal archives, reviewing thousands of court records and FDA documents- Vanderbes discovered that there were many more American victims and survivors of thalidomide than previously reported by the FDA or the press, and that after decades of isolation from one another, these individuals were just beginning to connect. In 2016, Jennifer Vanderbes began work on a nonfiction book about the thalidomide scandal of the 1960s. "This is narrative nonfiction at its most compelling." A page-turning account of the most notorious drug of the 20t h century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors.
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