The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

Meg Elison

earliest edition we have, 2014 Sybaritic Press, 2014 190 pages

In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power—and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even f...

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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife audiobook · 2016 · Brilliance Audio · 9781531830878
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife edition · 2014 · Sybaritic Press · 190 pages · 9781495116360

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