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StatusChecked Out
LocationMeuser
Barcode30091000874498
TitleBirthing pains : a story of transformation / Denise Raynor.
AuthorRaynor, Denise, author.
Call NoF RAY
CollectionAdult Fiction
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MeuserChecked OutF RAY30091000874498Due on 8/14/2026

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781963869552
Personal Name Raynor, Denise, author.
Title Statement Birthing pains : a story of transformation / Denise Raynor.
Varying Form of Title Birthing pains : a novel
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice [Los Angeles, California] : Rize, [2026]
Physical Description 344 pages ; 22 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "It's 1988. Fresh out of residency training, Dr. Laura Hampton is determined to modernize obstetric care in rural Stephens County, NC. The challenges are many, not simply the resistance to her uppity northern Negro aggressiveness from physicians at the county's hospital. She's also fighting to demonstrate that African Americans are unshakeable, intelligent, and sensitive three-dimensional people to a world that sees them as anything but. Always an outsider, Laura also struggles to fashion a comfortable life for her children and Jewish husband Aaron in a small town not far removed from the customs of the Jim Crow south. Her clinical work is hampered by the dire poverty that permeates her patients' lives and insufficient resources to serve them. Laura's self-confidence is shaken as she stumbles from one situation to another, an emotional turmoil that threatens to upend her marriage. As she struggles to regain her footing, she is forced to reexamine her attitudes about the people she serves, the ways she interacts with them, and how she can carry those lessons into the future that she plans in academic medicine"--Page 4 of cover.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women physicians - Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American women physicians - Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Obstetrics - Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Racism - Fiction. - North Carolina
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Small cities - Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Nineteen eighties - Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term North Carolina Race relations
Index Term-Genre/Form Medical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.
Location Mary Meuser PL F RAY 30091000874498