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The birth house : a novel / Ami McKay.
Title:
The birth house : a novel / Ami McKay.
Author:
McKay, Ami, 1968-
ISBN:
9780061135859

9780061135873
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Edition:
First Harper Perennial edition
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2007.
Physical Description:
x, 385, 18 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Includes insights, and interviews.
Abstract:
The first daughter in five generations of her Nova Scotia family, Dora Rare becomes an apprentice to a gifted midwife and storyteller before their home is threatened by the arrival of a brash medical doctor who promises sterile and painless births.
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