Well, Jolina has done it again. Since I finished The Outcast, I have been waiting for her sophomore novel, The Midwife. She did not disappoint. Once again, Jolina (I will always refer to this author by her first name since she is a friend of mine) enters the Tennessean Mennonite community as the backdrop for The Midwife. Like The Outcast, Jolina takes on multiple personas to create a story that is told from the mid 1990's and today.
The narrators include Roda--the head midwife at Hopen House, a place for young unwed mothers who is keeping a long and dark secret--Beth--a graduate assistant, who is a surrogate for her professor and narrates from the past--and Amelia--a teenager who is the newest resident at Hopen House with an undiscovered past of her own. Each narrator has a distinct and independent voice.
