Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Sweet Blue Distance’ and ‘The Frozen River’
Call the midwife: Jolie Hughes of Morgan Hill Bookstore in New London, N.H., recommends two recent historical fiction books that both feature midwives — one real, one fictional — set at different points within American history.“The Sweet Blue Distance” by Sara Donati follows a descendent of her bestselling Wilderness series.Young midwife Carrie Ballentyne travels from her home in New York to work in Sante Fe. It’s set in 1857, at an interesting moment in U.S. history: seven years after the U.S. claimed the territory from Mexico and four years before the start of the Civil War.Carrie finds…
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