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A review by crazystairs
My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
5.0
Having lived in Albany for nearly 10 years, I was fascinated by the author's description of the places I already know so well. I spent a great deal of the first quarter of the book reconciling 1860's Albany with 21st century Albany. Oliveira did not skimp on her research!
Being a science dork, I was also drawn in by the description of medicine in the early part if the Civil War. It is easy to take for granted the medical advancements we've had even in the past 60 years. Medicine in the 1860's was crude and seemed to be mostly guesswork. Parts of her narrative we're not for the faint of heart. Amputations and disease were described frankly.
I loved the characters, especially Mary. She is driven yet flawed. She makes mistakes, heart breaking ones, but she soldiers on, wiser for them.
This is a book that I will most certainly carry in my heart from now on.
Being a science dork, I was also drawn in by the description of medicine in the early part if the Civil War. It is easy to take for granted the medical advancements we've had even in the past 60 years. Medicine in the 1860's was crude and seemed to be mostly guesswork. Parts of her narrative we're not for the faint of heart. Amputations and disease were described frankly.
I loved the characters, especially Mary. She is driven yet flawed. She makes mistakes, heart breaking ones, but she soldiers on, wiser for them.
This is a book that I will most certainly carry in my heart from now on.