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  The Birth House

  by Ami McKay

  An arresting portrait of the struggles that women faced for control of their own bodies, The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare—the first daughter in five generations of Rares. As apprentice to the outspoken Acadian midwife Miss Babineau, Dora learns to assist the women of an isolated Nova Scotian village through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies, and unfulfilling sex... (more)
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  The Virgin Cure

  by Ami McKay

  The much-anticipated follow-up to the phenomenon that is The Birth House , The Virgin Cure secures Ami McKay's place as one of our most beguiling storytellers. "I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart." So begins The Virgin Cure , a novel set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year 1871. As a young child, Moth's father... (more)