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This is a set in the early 20th-century American South.

13-year-old Mildred Mortale is an average girl until a yellow fever outbreak prompts her parents to turn their family home into a funeral parlor. Mortale

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe famously referred to his transformative trip to Italy as his salto mortale , describing it as a "bid for freedom" and a critical rite of passage. Other Stories with "Mortale" in the Title This is a set in the early 20th-century American South

The Salto Mortale—A Reflection on Goethe's “Italian Journey” Mortale