num_pages: 192
description: Recounts the eventful forty-year career of a black woman who pressed her way through the medical world as a midwife, detailing the joys, the dangers, and the everyday experiences of this vanishing profession
language: English
title: Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story
titlecomplete: Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story
genres: Medical, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 249
publisher: Plume