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Date Posted: 07:27:15 04/13/12 Fri
Author: RisaB
Subject: My Name is Mary Sutter by Oliveria

This book is probably one of the best books other than a DG book I have ever read. There are sentences and paragraphs that the author has written that will take your breath away with their beauty/sadness. I can't recommend it highly enough. The one bad thing I can say is that it is the author's first work. I wanted to read more from her! The main character is a young midwife in Albany, New York at the beginning on the Civil War. Mary Sutter could be Claire's long lost cousin- wild curly hair, a wide streak of independence, and a desire to become a doctor that she will not let anyone stop her from accomplishing.
Here is a summary from Amazon: "The Civil War offers a 20-year-old midwife who dreams of becoming a doctor the medical experience she craves, plus hard work and heartbreak, in this rich debut that takes readers from a small upstate New York doctor's office to a Union hospital overflowing with the wounded and dying. Though she's too young for the nursing corps, Mary Sutter goes to Washington, anyway, and, after a chance meeting with a presidential secretary, is led to the Union Hotel Hospital, where she assists chief surgeon William Stipp and becomes so integral to Stipp's work she ignores her mother's pleas to return home to deliver her sister's baby. From a variety of perspectives—Mary, Stipp, their families, and social, political, and military leaders—the novel offers readers a picture of a time of medical hardship, crisis, and opportunity. Oliveira depicts the amputation of a leg, the delivery of a baby, and soldierly life; these are among the fine details that set this novel above the gauzier variety of Civil War fiction. The focus on often horrific medicine and the women who practiced it against all odds makes for compelling reading."

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