Program Type:
Book ClubAge Group:
Adults- Registration is required for this event.
- Registration will close on September 9, 2026 @ 4:00pm.
- This event uses combined registration. If you register for this event, you will also be registering for all other occurrences.
- A library card is required to register for this event.
Program Description
Event Details
Online registration required (monthly).
Interactive Program via Zoom with volunteer moderator John Spera and Library staff. Hosted the second Wednesday of the month.
This program is supported by donations to the Friends of the Lighthouse Point Library and the Barker Library Fund.
The Lobotomist's Wife by Samantha Greene Woodruff
Since her brother took his life after WWI, Ruth Emeraldine has had one goal: to help those suffering from mental illness. Then she falls in love with charismatic Robert Apter―a brilliant doctor championing a radical new treatment, the lobotomy. Ruth believes in it as a miracle treatment and in Robert as its genius pioneer. But as her husband spirals into deluded megalomania, Ruth can’t ignore her growing suspicions. Robert is operating on patients recklessly, often with horrific results. And a vulnerable young mother, Margaret Baxter, is poised to be his next victim.
Margaret can barely get out of bed, let alone care for her infant. When Dr. Apter diagnoses her with the baby blues and proposes a lobotomy, she believes the procedure is her only hope. Only Ruth can save her―and scores of others―from the harrowing consequences of Robert’s ambitions.
Inspired by a shocking chapter in medical history, The Lobotomist’s Wife is a galvanizing novel of a woman fighting against the most grievous odds, of ego, and of the best intentions gone horribly awry.
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