Books like Midwives
During an ice storm in rural Vermont in 1981, midwife Sibyl Danforth performs an emergency caesarean on a mother she believes has died in labour and is charged with manslaughter; her daughter Connie, fourteen at the time and now an obstetrician, tells the story of the trial.
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My Sister's Keeper
Thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald was conceived as a genetic match for her sister Kate, who has leukemia, and has given blood and marrow all her life; when her parents expect her to give a kidney, she hires a lawyer and sues them for the right to decide.
Small Great Things
Ruth Jefferson, a labour and delivery nurse with twenty years' experience, is barred from caring for a newborn because his parents are white supremacists, and when the baby goes into distress while she is alone with him, she is charged with his death.
Mad Honey
Olivia McAfee left an abusive marriage to take over her father's beekeeping business in a small New Hampshire town, and her teenage son Asher falls for Lily Campanello, who is new in town. Months later Lily is dead and Asher is charged with her murder.
The Last Story of Mina Lee
When her mother stops answering the phone, Margot Lee, twenty-six, goes home to Koreatown in Los Angeles and finds her dead, and as she tries to find out what happened, the story of Mina's arrival in 1987 is told alongside hers.
Miracle Creek
In a small Virginia town, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber run by a Korean immigrant family explodes during a session, killing two people, and a year later the trial of a mother accused of setting the fire draws every witness into question.
The Round House
A thirteen-year-old boy on an Ojibwe reservation seeks justice after his mother is brutally attacked, navigating a legal system designed to fail Native people.
The Frozen River
In 1789 in Hallowell, Maine, the midwife Martha Ballard is called to examine a man found frozen in the Kennebec River, one of two respected men accused months earlier of rape, and her diary and her determination set her against the town's powerful.
A Map of the World
Alice Goodwin, a school nurse who lives with her husband and daughters on a dairy farm in rural Wisconsin, is minding her best friend's two little girls when one of them wanders down to the pond.
Ethan Frome
A visiting engineer pieces together the story of Ethan Frome, a farmer in a bleak Massachusetts village, his sickly, suspicious wife and her young cousin who came to help keep house.
The House Gun
Harald and Claudia Lindgard, a comfortable white couple in post-apartheid Johannesburg, learn that their son has been arrested for murder.
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Sophie Caco, raised by her aunt in a Haitian village, is sent at twelve to join the mother she barely knows in New York.
To Kill a Mockingbird
A lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a Black man falsely accused of rape, as seen through the eyes of his young daughter.