![]() ![]() The novel offers a world of mystery and wisdom, a world where tradition collides with science, where life and death meet under the moon. ![]() And we the readers get to witness the emergence of a powerful new voice in Canadian writing." -Marjorie Anderson, co-editor of Dropped Threads I and II "Ami McKay is a marvellous storyteller who writes with a haunting and evocative voice. In McKay's depiction of Dora Rare, an early twentieth century midwife, attention is paid to the day-to-day moments of love and tending that enable humans to endure. She retrieves our social history and lays it out before us in a collage of vivid, compelling detail. ![]() "Fresh as a loaf of homemade bread just out of the oven, The Birth House, a tale of sex, birth, love and pain will more than satisfy the hungry reader." -Joan Clark, author of An Audience of Chairs "The moon over Nova Scotia must have extra magic in it to have fostered a writer of Ami McKay's lyrical sway and grace. ![]()
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