43 - The Birth House, by Ami McKay
WHY I PICKED IT: Recommended by my friend Alexis
ELAPSED TIME: 5 days
RATING: Very Good
This is a lovely story. Of Dora Rare. The only girl with 5 brothers, raised in Nova Scotia. She becomes a midwife, and grows up during The Great War. This is a story of gender, of class, and ultimately of making (rather than finding) your place.
The story is lovely - interlacing traditional narrative, Dora's diary entries, newspaper clippings, and letters to and from Dora... The last of which included quotes by French novelist George Sand that I quite enjoyed: "The World will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women."
All in all, a really warm book with characters that I let into my heart.
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