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Tonic and Balm - Kindle edition by Allen, Stephanie. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note . Stephanie Allen’s novel Tonic and Balm follows one such troupe, Doc Bell’s Miracles and Mirth Medicine Show, as it winds through Pennsylvania, struggling to stay afloat amidst internal discord and dwindling revenues.  · Stephanie Allen’s Tonic and Balm employs an unconventional but not unfamiliar formal structure. Explicitly labeled “A Novel” on the title page, the book nevertheless could also be taken as a series of discrete stories with an in-common setting (reinforced by the “Program” that acts as a table of contents) and overlapping characters.

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Stephanie Allen’s Tonic and Balm employs an unconventional but not unfamiliar formal structure. Explicitly labeled “A Novel” on the title page, the book nevertheless could also be taken as a series of discrete stories with an in-common setting (reinforced by the “Program” that acts as a table of contents) and overlapping characters. Set in , Stephanie Allen’s debut novel, Tonic and Balm, follows Doc Bell’s Miracle and Mirth Medicine Show as it reels in rural audiences with variety acts and snake-oil cures. Doc Bell, the founder and emcee of the traveling show, is not a doctor. Stephanie Allen’s debut novel, Tonic and Balm, concerns itself with a medicine show traveling in Pennsylvania during the summer of The element that distinguishes this show from vaudeville is the sale of dubiously manufactured substances hawked by the show’s mastermind, Doc Bell.