My Name Is Mary Sutter

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 16, 2010

Robin Oliveira discusses her first novel, about a young woman's struggle to become a doctor during the Civil War, My Name Is Mary Sutter. Mary Sutter is a head¬strong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine, she goes to Washington, D.C. to help tend the Civil War wounded.

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