![]() After a troubled interlude with a young Mormon couple fleeing their increasingly unstable community, she eventually finds her way to a small settlement on what remains of a military base, where she devotes herself to passing on her skills and attempting to deliver a surviving baby. ![]() Disguising herself as a man and taking many names to protect herself both physically and emotionally from anyone getting too close, she travels across the country, quietly offering birth control to the enslaved women she encounters and defending herself from scavengers and potential rapists. ![]() After an unpleasant year spent in a sparsely populated city sprinkled with male predators, she decides to move on in search of something better. The nurse falls ill herself but ultimately wakes alone in a hospital bed, surrounded by bodies and her doctor boyfriend either dead himself or long gone. For women giving birth, it is a virtual death sentence for both mother and child. ![]() ![]() The midwife of the title is an obstetric nurse in San Francisco when an unknown disease strikes it kills men but is more devastating to women. ![]()
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