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Robin Oliveira
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In this stunning historical
novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant,
headstrong midwife from Albany, New York,
who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined
to overcome the prejudices against women in
medicine—and eager to run away from her
recent heartbreak—Mary leaves home and
travels to Washington, D.C. to help tend the
legions of Civil War wounded. Under the
guidance of William Stipp and James Blevens—two
surgeons who fall unwittingly in love with
Mary’s courage, will, and stubbornness in
the face of suffering—and resisting her
mother’s pleas to return home to help with
the birth of her twin sister’s baby, Mary
pursues her medical career in the
desperately overwhelmed hospitals of the
capital.
Like Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain
and Robert Hicks’s The Widow of the
South, My Name Is Mary Sutter powerfully
evokes the atmosphere of the period. Rich
with historical detail (including marvelous
depictions of Lincoln, Dorothea Dix, General
McClelland, and John Hay...
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