![]() ![]() With one of the highest rates of maternal death in the world, these Malian women sometimes had to work right up until and directly after giving birth and had no means of contraception. Yet Monique, barely educated, working without electricity, running water, ambulances or emergency rooms, was solely responsible for all births in her village, tending malnourished and overworked pregnant women in her makeshift birthing clinic. When Holloway (now a nonprofit development specialist) arrived in Nampossela in 1989, she was 22 Monique was only two years her senior. It centers on her close friendship with Monique, the village's overburdened midwife. ![]() This tender, revelatory memoir recalls the two years Holloway spent as an impressionable Peace Corps volunteer in the remote village of Nampossela in Mali, West Africa. ![]()
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