“What I like so much about this book is how it makes me feel like being a kid in summer, reading A Girl of the Limberlost or The Witch of Blackbird Pond—the leisure of living in a different space for a book’s worth of time and then beyond it, needing to stay in those worlds. Oliveira’s Mary Sutter is a passionate, determined woman I’d want for a friend, an ally, for my corner in a fight. She is focused and uncompromising, driven to become a surgeon when surgeons hardly know the surgery they must practice as the Civil War begins, and when women are barely allowed to serve as nurses. Thank goodness Mary’s such a tough nut and that Ms. Oliveira did such research, and that this engaging, thoughtful story was written for us to fall into.”—Sarah N., Grass Roots Books & Music, Corvallis, OR
Face Out
My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
July 2, 2011