Title: Night duty
Subtitle: a novel
Description: Night Duty opens in an operating room as a young female physician performs an autopsy on a man who had liver disease. This stark and clinical scene sets the stage for another kind of autopsy as the young doctor reexamines her own life and the life and the lives of her troubled family: her brothers, her dead mother, and her trying father now dying in a nearby hospital ward for alcoholics.
Subjects: New York Times reviewed, Women physicians, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Austria, fiction, Pathologists, Fiction, Alcoholics, Family relationships, Adult children of alcoholics, Parent and adult child, Mothers and daughters, Parents, Death, World War, 1939-1945