Bea G. (beag) reviewed on 4/28/2013 + 6 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

This was a book that I started several years ago and then lost interest. As it is a popular book, it remained on my TBR list, but somehow I just never found the motivation to pick it up again - at lest not until GR challenges came along for which it was an ideal choice.

This is the story of a young girl's family, particularly her mother and the singular event of her mother's life which helped to form hers.

Sibyl Danforth was a dedicated midwife who one horrible night had a mother to die giving birth. Sibyl saved the child by doing an emergency operation...and, there the story starts. What really happened? Was the patient really dead or did Sibyl's action kill her?

Connie is Sibyl's 14 year old daughter and the anrrator of the story and its events. The reader sees everything from Connie's re-telling and point of view, which is that of a young teen and not the adult that she later becomes.

I got thoroughly caught up in Connie's story of her mother and the trial and found that I believed the outsome of the trial was sure. But was it?

This is the first Chris Bohjalian book that I have read. Gave it 4* and will definitely look for another.

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