Matters of Choice
by Noah Gordon
2020-12-29 07:57:53
A woman physician confronts the moral issues of her time in the third novel in the New York Timesâbestselling authorâs historical medical trilogy. Roberta Jeanne dâArc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston...
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A woman physician confronts the moral issues of her time in the third novel in the New York Timesâbestselling authorâs historical medical trilogy. Roberta Jeanne dâArc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails. Crushed, she goes to the farmhouse in Western Massachusetts, thinking to sell it, and finds an unexpected life. How she continues to fight for every womanâs right to choose, while acknowledging her own ticking clock and maternal yearning, makes this prize-winning third story of the Cole trilogy as relevant as tomorrow.
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