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Midwives by Chris Bohjalian (1998, Paperback) 
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian (1998, Paperback)

 
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian (1998, Paperback)

Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
Series: Oprah's Book Club
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0375706771
ISBN-13: 9780375706776
Product ID: EPID158448
Description: Sybil Danforth, an uncertified lay midwife in rural Vermont, gets into trouble when she performs an emergency Caesarian on a minister's wife. Sybil's daughter, Connie, looks back to 1981 to tell the story of the murder trial.
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Synopsis
Sybil Danforth, an uncertified lay midwife in rural Vermont, gets into trouble when she performs an emergency Caesarian on a minister's wife. Sybil's daughter, Connie, looks back to 1981 to tell the story of the murder trial.

Details
Publication Date:1998-10-01
Series:Oprah's Book Club

Size
Length:374 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:11.2 oz

Publisher's Note

"Superbly crafted and astonishingly powerful. . . . It will thrill readers who cherish their worn copies of To Kill A Mockingbird." --People

With a suspense, lyricism, and moral complexity that recall To Kill a Mockingbird and Presumed Innocent, this compulsively readable novel explores what happens when a woman who has devoted herself to ushering life into the world finds herself charged with responsibility in a patient's tragic death.

The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency Caesarean section on its mother, who appears to have died in labor. But what if--as Sibyl's assistant later charges--the patient wasn't already dead, and it was Sibyl who inadvertently killed her?

As recounted by Sibyl's precocious fourteen-year-old daughter, Connie, the ensuing trial bears the earmarks of a witch hunt except for the fact that all its participants are acting from the highest motives--and the defendant increasingly appears to be guilty. As Sibyl Danforth faces the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do.

Industry Reviews
"Connie's story is a coming-of-age tale, in which disturbing incidents awaken a child to the world's complexity and unpredictability....Mr. Bohjalian has done his homework on midwifery and the mechanics of childbirth. he has also landed on a hot topic for baby boomers--the whole question of when alternatives to traditional medicine are beneficial, and when they become dangerous."
New York Times Book Review - Suzanne Berne (05/04/1997)

"[A] novel which could only have been written by an American....'Midwives' moves beyond being simply a celebration of the joys of the candle-lit birth. And there are other satisfactions--an abundance of medical and legal detail, for those who love such information, and the gentle, rolling rhythms of Bohjalian's prose..."
Literary Review - Kate Hubbard (12/19/1997)

"Bohjalian blends some provocative moral, medical, and political issues into a classic coming-of-age story....Rich in moral ambiguity, informative to a fault on the methods and politics of childbirth, and perceptive regarding the whipsawing desires and loyalties of a perfectly normal teenage girl: a compelling, complex novel..."
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