The midwife's tale
By: Gretchen Moran Laskas.
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Midwives -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; Appalachian Region, Southern -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Serving as midwives to the residents of a small mining town in prewar Appalachia, Elizabeth and her mother share in the intimate details of the lives of every family in the region, but none of their neighbors know their own secrets and desires.