Description:
Three women overcome challenges of identity, abandonment, and emotional trauma as they find purpose and sisterhood within the unlikely setting of a care home.
Brief description: Sunita Reddy, M.D, is a practicing Obstetrician and Gynecologist. She has worked and lived with her husband and two sons in Dayton, Ohio. She currently works at Kettering Medical Center. This is her debut novel.Her work as an OBGYN gives her the unique opportunity to counsel and guide patients through many complex issues they face every day. Her patients demonstrate tremendous resilience as they rise above tough challenges to better their lives through sisterhood, family support, and new medical technologies. In their tenacity and capacity for renewal, Reddy finds inspiration to tell their stories, offering a hopeful message about our human capacity for growth and redemption. Infertility, adoption, domestic violence, and teenage pregnancy are relevant current issues that need to be addressed. In Before We Were Women, Reddy encourages women to empower themselves and others through kindness, and to foster meaningful connections along the way.
Review Quotes:
"Dr. Reddy knows what women think and how they feel about their lives. In her novel, Before We Were Women, she plumbs the depths of myriad feminine emotions... Her novel is a tear-jerker... I loved it. She has done a beautiful job."
-Vick Mickunas, host of "Book Nook" on WYSO Public Radio, an NPR affiliate"A dazzling literary debut...a sparkling novel."
-Dayton Daily News"Author's approach to disability is touching...great twists and turns throughout."
-Dr. Hemant Shah, M.D., FCCP DSM CPEClinical Professor of Medicine, Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine