Susan Henderson schrijft met een diepgaand begrip van het menselijk hart, waarbij ze vaak thema's als herinnering, familie en de overgang tussen verleden en heden onderzoekt. Haar stilistische bekwaamheid ligt in het creëren van levendige beelden en het indringend verkennen van het innerlijke leven van haar personages. Henderson's focus ligt op de nuances van menselijke verbinding en de complexe emotionele landschappen die ons bestaan vormgeven. Haar werken nodigen lezers uit om na te denken over de blijvende impact van onze ervaringen en de manieren waarop we ermee omgaan.
With the quiet precision of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres and the technical clarity of Mary Roach's Stiff, this is a novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her father's mortuary in the small, forgotten town of Petroleum. Reserved, introspective, and deeply lonely, Mary strikes up an unlikely friendship with another outsider and finally begins to consider what might happen if she dared to leave Petroleum.
Tillie Harris's life is in disarray—her husband is away on business, the boxes in her new home aren't unpacked, and the telephone isn't even connected yet. Though she's not due for another month, sudden labor pains force Tillie to reach out to her estranged father for help, a choice that means facing the painful memories she's been running from since she was a little girl. An extraordinary debut from a talented new voice, Up from the Blue untangles the year in Tillie's life that changed everything: 1975, the year her mother disappeared.
Maine nurses have served tirelessly as caregivers and partners in healing at home and abroad, from hospitals to battlefields. The Division of Public Health Nursing and Child Hygiene was established in 1920 to combat high rates of infant mortality in Washington and Aroostook Counties. During the Vietnam War, Maine nurses helped build the Twelfth Evacuation Hospital at Cu Chi and bravely assisted surgeries in the midst of fighting. In the early 1980s, nurse disease prevention educators in Portland rose to the challenge of combating the growing AIDS epidemic. Through historical anecdotes and fascinating oral histories, discover the remarkable sacrifices and achievements of Maine's nurses.