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The novel follows Julianne, a midwife, through an accidental death in the delivery chamber, her incarceration for that death in France, her forced marriage and an exile to Louisiana. Shortly after arriving she is widowed and takes back up the practice of midwifery. She endures not only the primitive life in Louisiana in the 1700s, but all of the backward politics and sexist injustice that went with it.