Midwives

Just finished this book. Bought it for a buck during my last Florida visit. The story is narrated by a woman, providing the view point of her 14 year old self, including entries from her mother's personal journal. Her mother is a midwife accused of performing a cesarean operation in a living woman without anesthesia, with a kitchen knife.

The story is very well told, and provides a beautiful twist at the end. However the author is more interested in providing the setting for the twist than in making a commentary about babies being caught at home vs. being born in the hospital, thus preventing the book from really taking off. I'd still recommend it, though. Great find!

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