The Birth House
By Ami McKay
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780061135873, 416pp.)
Publication Date: October 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Hardcover
Categories: Literary
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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 fighting to protect the rights of women as well as the wisdom that has been put into her care.
Ami McKay is the author of the number one Canadian bestseller The Birth House, the winner of three Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards and a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her work has aired on various Canadian radio programs, and her documentary, Daughter of Family G, won an Excellence in Journalism Medallion at the 2003 Atlantic Journalism Awards. She is also active with UNICEF and other organizations. Originally from Indiana, she now lives with her husband and two sons in Nova Scotia.
[It] will educate and thoroughly charm you with its honesty and brilliant prose.
-The State (Columbia, SC)
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