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Book Giveaway: Arms Wide Open
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Karna Converse is a freelance writer who's written everything from technical documentation and price proposals to newsletter articles, devotionals, personal profiles and essays. Her essays have been published in a variety of regional and national publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, Notre Dame Magazine, the Cup of Comfort and Chicken Soup anthologies, Our Iowa, and on Iowa Public Radio. She lives in Storm Lake, Iowa with her husband and their three children.




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Book Giveaway: Arms Wide Open
Posted in Reading by Karna Converse on December 16, 2011
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Patricia Harman is giving away one copy of her new book.

Patricia spent over thirty years caring for women as a midwife, first as a lay-midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on communal farms in West Virginia, and later as a nurse-midwife in teaching hospitals and in a community hospital birthing center. In Arms Wide Open, she recounts the stories that patients brought into her exam room and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife.

Check out Melissa Flicek Doffing's book review we published last August. Then, leave a comment and your email address at the end of this post, and you'll be entered in her random drawing. Or, if you prefer, send your comment via email to lmblog(at)literarymama(dot)com.

Entry deadline: December 30th.



Comments
Enjoyed this, thank you!
Posted by amy white on Dec 26, 2011
Sounds like a great book. Thanks for the giveaway!
Posted by Rachel Turiel on Dec 26, 2011
After reading "Midwives" by Chris Bohjalian several years ago, I'd love to read this for another perspective on such an amazing, but still publically mysterious, process and relationship.
Posted by Tabatha on Dec 27, 2011
There seems to be such a range of different types of midwives now. I would love to read about one midwife's experiences!
Danielle H
Posted by Danielle Housenick on Dec 27, 2011
Would love a copy of this.
Posted by Ariel Lawhon on Dec 27, 2011
after 35 years of birth and postpartum work i find myself in a state of drift and seeking inspiration. this work is fraught or sanguine depending on one's personal/spiritual orientation and what day it is.
Posted by esther on Dec 27, 2011

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