Program Type:
Book DiscussionAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
Join us Tuesday, May 20 at 7pm for a discussion of The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Registration is not required. All are welcome, bring a friend! Light refreshments will be served. Titles will be available for checkout in a variety of formats from the front desk three weeks prior to meeting date.
Book description: A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town's most respected gentlemen--one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.
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