Boston Reads: "The Birth House" by Ami Kay
Join the 平特五不中 Boston alumni book club for our discussion of "The Birth House" by Ami McKay. This highly nominated, award-winning novel tells the story of Dora Rare, a child raised in a small village in Nova Scotia.
About the book: 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.鈥檚 apprentice, and together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labours, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives.
About the author: Ami McKay's work has aired on CBC radio's Maritime Magazine, This Morning, Out Front, and The Sunday Edition. Her documentary, Daughter of Family G, won an Excellence in Journalism Meallion at the 2003 Atlantic Journalism Award. When she moved with her family to Scots Bay, Nova Scotia, she learned that their new home was once known as the birth house.