I've read McKay's other book, "The Virgin Cure," and found it much more satisfying; this one just suffers too much from first-author problems.I really enjoyed this book. But more that that, this is also a story of the connection between women in a male-driven society. [When Dora helps a desperate woman with an abortifacient, she does not do so lightly, much preferring to offer preventative measures. It felt at times like I could see the story engine grinding too much behind the scenes, could see the way things were going to go.I should have known better than to read this. On some things I really don't care that much anymore. Dora was also a very passive character, and while in some circumstances it made sense, she seemed to drift through the novel on other characters' steam. The family of Judah Rare were part of a group of Scottish immigrants who came because of being storm blown off course in the Scots Bay area during the last half of the 19th century, and stayed. In one of the most highly anticipated young adult books of 2020, debut author Aiden Thomas creates a magical world of Latinx-inspired magic that si...Spanning the 20th century Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Scotia and creates a rich tableau of characters to tell the story of childbirth from its most secretive early practices to modern maternity as we know it. The book also has a sI really enjoyed this book.
I read this book before joining Goodreads and it is definitely one of my favorite Canadian reads. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Just because one is a degreed doctor, it does not mean they are god-like in all respects including infinite knowledge and understand. suffragism! Feeling safe and supported during this incredible time in your life is just one of the many ways The Natural BirthHouse will help you to have the joyful birth experience you have been searching for.Take your first step into a more joyous birth experience. Once again, a visit to how incredibly awful and proscribed women's lives used to be, with the obvious reminder that it's not all peachy these days, either. It's time to choose a birthing environment that is gentle and supportive during such a special moment in your life.We know you will be surprised at how much more The Natural BirthHouse has to offer than just a comfortable environment to deliver your baby in! She fought so hard for midwifery, and then it died a natural death in the 1940's. I know, I'll write a novel and set it in the quaint town I just moved to and that I love love love."
As a chilSpanning the 20th century Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Scotia and creates a rich tableau of characters to tell the story of childbirth from its most secretive early practices to modern maternity as we know it.
I'm glad I did. Glad I did. I didn't realize when I TBR'd it that it was even about Nova Scotia, now my home.I enjoyed this book. In that period of time between 1910 - 1920 women preferred a mid wife to a male Dr. Seemed a pointlesI hated this book on so many levels I hardly know where to begin...it was smutty, the characters were unlikable (every single one, in my opinion), and the views on midwifery vs. science were obnoxious. Welcome back. Yet, it also reminded me that there are homegrown remedies that have been around since the beginning of time, that might be better for us, yet we're presently in a society that makes us choose manufactured medicine every time. It was so well-written and a very fast read.
For whatever reason I ended up reading a different McKay novel first -- the Virgin Cure -- and that book was so compelling that I found myself hiding in a bedroom at a holiday party reading, unable to put it down.
Mostly about a young woman, Dora, who is the only girl in a long line of all males in her dad's family. The book is set in the early 1900s in Canada during WWI.
Yeah, of course we couldn't vote. And honesty. Tragic.3.5 STARS - In an attempt to read the many, MANY books that I own (both paper and digital) I decided to pick up The Birth House by Ami McKay which has been on my bookshelf for many years. Take your first step into a more joyous birth … So we find the First World War, the Halifax Explosion, Spanish Flu and the Boston molasses disaster all featuring, but curiously briefly and without full engagement with any of them.I liked the setting of the book and the interspersed newspaper advertisements of the time but wasn't so keen on the storytelling.
It starts an interesting debate in favor of midwives over doctors, mostly because the doctor in this novel is really just in it for the money, so he can easily be turned into a villain (therefore science into a a villain as well). Her memoir, Daughter of Family G was named a CBC Best Book of 2019.
.Ami McKay.. It really is a beautiful thing to LOVE your birth experience! Epic and enchanting, 'The Birth House' is a gripping saga about a midwife's struggles in the wilds of Nova Scotia. Amazing that this is a debut novel. Since 2014. Located in Nova Scotia; which was a birth house many years before. I know. I know, I'll write a novel and set it in the quaint town I just moved to and that I love love love." The only reason I finished it was because I kept hoping it would get better because a friend gave it a good review.
And I doubt that mother-in-law jokes are any less in the modern world...not to mention fathers in the same breath of course.... chips of the old block" If you like what I like, this book is very good reading.
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