Ami McKay

The Birth House

Buch

An arresting portrait of the struggles that women faced for control of their own bodies, 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 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. In a clash between tradition and science, Dora finds herself f… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-113587-3
EAN: 9780061135873
Produktnummer: 19385796
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Gattung: Novel
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.7 cm 315 g
Gewicht: 315

Über den Autor

Ami McKay is the author of the number–one Canadian bestseller The Birth House, winner of three Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards, and a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and The Virgin Cure. Originally from Indiana, she now lives with her husband and two sons in Nova Scotia.