The I Index

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Top of the pile

95

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

93/100

Critics

96/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Jennifer Vanderbes

Publisher:

Random House

Date:

June 27, 2023

An account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors.

What The Reviewers Say

Perri Klass,
The Washington Post
A largely untold and deeply disturbing story.

Publishers Weekly
[A] mind-boggling horror story.

Kirkus
A novelistic investigation of the shocking story of thalidomide in the U.S..