Midwives: a novel
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure:
1150L
Description
In the pastoral community of Reddington, Vermont, during the harsh winter of 1981, Sibyl Danforth makes a life-or-death decision based on fifteen years of experience as a respected midwife - a decision intended to save a child, a decision that will change her life forever.
In the midst of a brutally cold night, cut off from the area hospital and even from the rescue squad by an ice storm that has downed phone lines and made roads impassable, Sibyl Danforth feels she has no alternative except to attempt to save the baby of a woman in her care who she fears has died of a stroke during a long and difficult labor. Later that day, however, the midwife's assistant tells the police that she believes the mother was still very much alive when the cesarean section was performed in the cold and isolated farmhouse.
The story of this tragedy and its aftermath is narrated by Sibyl's daughter, Connie, now an obstetrician, who is remembering the events that occurred the year she turned fourteen, when her mother's freedom and her family's fate rested in the hands of twelve men and women. As the Danforth family and the entire community are drawn into a gripping trial that at first appears meritless, and later frighteningly simple for Sibyl to lose, it is Connie's mesmerizing voice that perfectly captures a time, a place, and a group of people that will live on in the reader's memory long after this lyric, deeply suspenseful novel has ended.
In the midst of a brutally cold night, cut off from the area hospital and even from the rescue squad by an ice storm that has downed phone lines and made roads impassable, Sibyl Danforth feels she has no alternative except to attempt to save the baby of a woman in her care who she fears has died of a stroke during a long and difficult labor. Later that day, however, the midwife's assistant tells the police that she believes the mother was still very much alive when the cesarean section was performed in the cold and isolated farmhouse.
The story of this tragedy and its aftermath is narrated by Sibyl's daughter, Connie, now an obstetrician, who is remembering the events that occurred the year she turned fourteen, when her mother's freedom and her family's fate rested in the hands of twelve men and women. As the Danforth family and the entire community are drawn into a gripping trial that at first appears meritless, and later frighteningly simple for Sibyl to lose, it is Connie's mesmerizing voice that perfectly captures a time, a place, and a group of people that will live on in the reader's memory long after this lyric, deeply suspenseful novel has ended.
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9780517703960
9781400032976
9780609604977
9780375706776
9780679771463
9781400032976
9780609604977
9780375706776
9780679771463
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 7.2, 19 Points
Level 7.2, 19 Points
Lexile measure:
1150L
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Grouping Title | midwives |
Grouping Author | chris bohjalian |
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Novelist Primary ISBN | 9780517703960 |
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display_description | The trial of a midwife in 1980s Vermont. Sybil Danforth, with several hundred deliveries to her name, claims the mother was dead when she opened her to save the baby. The prosecution claims the mother was alive and the operation was illegal. The story is narrated by Sybil's daughter, portraying the trial as another round in the persecution of midwives by the New England medical profession. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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publishDate | 1997 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
publisher | Harmony Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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series | Book Oprah's Club Vintage Contemporaries | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
series_with_volume | Book Oprah's Club| Vintage Contemporaries| | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
subject_facet | Electronic books Legal -- FICTION Legal stories Medical fiction Midwives -- Fiction Trials -- Fiction Vermont -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Midwives : a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Midwives : a novel / by Chris Bohjalian Midwives A Novel Midwives A Novel [electronic resource] Bohjalian, Chris, 1962- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Midwives | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Fiction Legal Literature Midwives Trials |