Midwives

Midwives
ISBN-10
0375706771
ISBN-13
9780375706776
Category
Fiction
Pages
374
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Author
Chris Bohjalian

Description

In the winter of 1981, trapped by unpassable roads, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes a life-altering decision when she performs an emergency cesarean section on a woman she fears has died of a stroke

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