Lovie: The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship

by Lisa Yarger

Book Overview

From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. Her life, which was about giving life, was conspicuously marked by loss, including the untimely death of her husband and the murder of her son.

Lovie is a provocative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469630052
• ISBN13: 9781469630052
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"