“A flower child who found her calling after coaching a friend through a home birth, nurse-midwife Harman works with her ob-gyn husband at a West Virginia clinic. In her sweetly perceptive memoir, she reveals how her exam room becomes a confessional. Coaxing women in thin blue gowns to share secrets—about abusive boyfriends, OxyContin habits, unplanned pregnancies—she reminds them that they’re not alone.” —People magazine

“Here is an intimate account of a woman, both her career as a midwife and her life as the wife of a doctor in West Virginia. Her patients’ lives are stories of hope and loss; her marriage is a story of love and faith accompanied by debt and tension. Well-written and heartfelt.” —Boston Globe

"Nobody writes with more candor and compassion about women's woes and women's triumphs than nurse-midwife Patricia Harman. Her behind-the-exam-room-door memoir is a bittersweet valentine to every woman—young and old—who has ever donned that thin blue cotton gown, to every husband-wife medical team." —Sara Pritchard, author of Crackpots and Lately

"For anyone who wants to think hard about the social conflagration the Vietnam War produced in the U.S., and more generally about a citizen's obligations in troubled times, Ayers's powerful, morally charged account of a life and a society in the political balance is provocative reading." —David Farber, Chicago Tribune

"Truly a gift, one that will echo in my own preaching and teaching, and in my own life as well. Like Moses gazing at the Promised Land he would not enter, Forrest Church blesses us with his eloquence, his faith, and, mostly, his love." —Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

An audio version of Love & Death is also available.

"Illegal People documents how undocumented workers have become the world's most exploited workforce … In this richly reported book, David Bacon makes a powerful case for the centrality of 'illegals' … in the global struggle for economic justice." —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America