March 28 - April 1, 2007

Ami McKay, The Birth House. (Knopf Canada)

Friday, March 30, 2007
Free Lunchtime Reading
Noon
Spring Garden Road
Memorial Public Library

Public Workshop Series:
Saturday, March 30, 2007
Birth Stories
130PM
Spring Garden Road
Memorial Public Library

Ami McKay started her writing career as a freelance writer for CBC Radio. Her work has aired on Maritime Magazine, Out Front, This Morning, and The Sunday Edition. Her bestselling debut novel, The Birth House, has also been published in The Netherlands, the UK, the US, and Germany. Born in rural Indiana, she now lives with her husband and two sons in an old birth house on the Bay of Fundy.

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The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing. Dora becomes Miss B.’s apprentice, and together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labours, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives. Filled with details as compelling as they are surprising, The Birth House is an unforgettable tale of the struggles women have faced to have control of their own bodies and to keep the best parts of tradition alive in the world of modern medicine.