![]() I found myself thinking about Mary long after I finished the book. Oliveira, herself a nurse, has convincingly recreated real events and real places, but the story is never weighed down by research. Devoted to her mission, she neglects her family's needs. ![]() ![]() Apprenticing herself to the hospital doctors, she becomes an accomplished field physician. She decides to leave for Washington to work in a wartime hospital, where she observes Union forces woefully unprepared for battle carnage. Mary was rejected by medical school and rebuffed by a physician to whom she offered to apprentice. Robin is a nurse and has written a completely convincing novel about a young Albany woman who wants to become a doctor and serve the Union during the Civil War. ![]() Robin Oliveira is reading from the book and discussing it next Sunday afternoon, May 23 at 5 p.m. I want to share my enthusiasm for a new novel called MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER(Viking, $26.95). ![]()
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