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The midwife's tale / Gretchen Moran Laskas.
Van Pelt Library PS3612.A85 M43 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laskas, Gretchen Moran.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Midwives--Fiction.
- Midwives.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Appalachian Region, Southern--Fiction.
- Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Southern Appalachian Region.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 243 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Incorporating the whimsical mountain lore of Appalachia's past, Gretchen Laskas has crafted a story as true to our time as its own, and a cast of characters as poignant as they are entirely original.
- Elizabeth and her Mama know intimately the histories of every family that comes knocking on their door, each love, loss, and shadowy secret. Few, however, know their own: who Elizabeth's father is, for instance, or why she goes to live with a man who doesn't love her, sharing his bed and raising another woman's child, or how she yearns for the one miracle her barren body can't produce. But then Elizbeth's adopted daughter begins to display an unexplainable gift, one that can change Elizabeth's life forever -- if she can only allow herself to, finally, love.
- ISBN:
- 0385335512
- OCLC:
- 50948602
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