Ämmaemandad - Chris Bohjalian

On an icy winter night in a lonely house in the corner of Vermont, experienced midwife Sibyl Danforth makes a desperate effort to save the life of an infant. He performs an emergency C-section on a mother who he believes has died of a stroke. But what if Sibyl's patient wasn't dead and Sibyl accidentally killed a woman?

As Sibyl faces the contradictions of the law, the hostility of the doctors, and her own guilt, this book fascinates, moves, and rivets us as only the best novels do.