Book description
In a uniquely vivid story of women in medicine, found family, and conquering fear for readers of Kristin Hannah, Ellen Marie Wiseman, and Audrey Blake, an impoverished former doctor and her disabled son join a traveling medicine show and its family of strangers on a collision course with the deadliest…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Medicine Woman of Galveston as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I really enjoyed this book because it plopped me right into the early 1900s when women began wandering into traditionally men’s fields like medicine. I like the delicate folding of the main character’s personal life with her Down Syndrome child and her struggles in her professional life because, face it, work is not everything in life.
This book captures the compromises a single mother has to make and compounds them by adding characters who refuse to believe she’s competent in medicine.
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