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The Birth House

The Birth House

McKay, Ami

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Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 0061135879
ISBN13: 9780061135873
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Oct 9 2007
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

In this breathtaking debut novel, Ami McKay has created an unforgettable portrait of the struggles that women have faced to control their own bodies and to keep the best parts of tradition alive in the world of modern medicine.

The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare--the first daughter in five generations of Rares. As apprentice to the outspoken Acadian midwife Miss Babineau, Dora learns to assist the women of an isolated Nova Scotian village through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies, and even unfulfilling sex lives. During the turbulent World War I era, uncertainty and upheaval accompany the arrival of a brash new medical doctor and his promises of progress and fast, painless childbirth. Dora soon finds herself fighting to protect the rights of women as well as the wisdom that has been put into her care.

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