My Name Is Mary Sutter: A Novel by Robin Oliveira

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name Is Mary Sutter: A Novel Author: Robin Oliveira Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 13, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this stunning historical novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrongmidwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becominga surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against womenin medicine—and eager to run away from her recent heartbreak—Mary leaves home and travels to Washington, D.C. to help tendthe legions of Civil War wounded. Under the guidance of WilliamStipp and James Blevens—two surgeons who fall unwittingly inlove with Mary’s courage, will, and stubbornness in the face ofsuffering—and resisting her mother’s pleas to return home to helpwith the birth of her twin sister’s baby, Mary pursues her medicalcareer in the desperately overwhelmed hospitals of the capital.Like Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain and Robert Hicks’s TheWidow of the South, My Name Is Mary Sutter powerfully evokesthe atmosphere of the period. Rich with historical detail (includingmarvelous depictions of Lincoln, Dorothea Dix, GeneralMcClellan, and John Hay among others), and full of the tragediesand challenges of wartime, My Name Is Mary Sutter is an exceptionalnovel. And in Mary herself, Robin Oliveira has created atruly unforgettable heroine whose unwavering determination andvulnerability will resonate with readers everywhere.