Monique And The Mango Rains. Two Years With A Midwife In Mali.

Abstract

Reviews the book Monique and the mango rains. Two years with a midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway and Long Grove (2007). This book provide a full profile of Monique not only as a dedicated midwife functioning under adverse conditions, but also as a woman caught in an unhappy arranged marriage and as a mother dealing with the daily chores of her own household. Readers will find this memoir emotionally moving, beautifully written, and highly informative. As someone who lived and worked in Mali for five years and who vaccinated the people of Nampossela against smallpox, measles, and yellow fever in 1967, I assess it as one of the finest volumes ever written about life in rural Mali. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)