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Title: My Name Is Mary Sutter
Author: Robin Oliveira
Narrator: Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-13-10
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 418 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
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 medicineand eager to run away from her recent heartbreakMary 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 Blevenstwo surgeons who fall unwittingly in love with Marys courage, will, and stubbornness in the face ofsufferingand resisting her mothers pleas to return home to help with the birth of her twin sisters baby, Mary pursues her medical career in the desperately overwhelmed hospitals of the capital.
Like Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain and Robert Hickss 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 McClellan, and John Hay among others), and full of the tragedies and challenges of wartime, My Name Is Mary Sutter is an exceptional novel. And in Mary herself, Robin Oliveira has created a truly unforgettable heroine whose unwavering determination andvulnerability will resonate with readers everywhere.
Critic Reviews:
"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." (
Publishers Weekly)
