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Key ideas from the book
- Aliet’s life connects personal history with the traditions of Mi’kmaw women.
- The novel portrays traditional midwifery in a changing and increasingly hostile climate.
- Aliet’s return home prompts a search into long-guarded family secrets.
- The story considers how inherited knowledge and memory shape the next generation.
- Readers encounter a family story rooted in a small Nova Scotia community.
About The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters
Amanda Peters’s historical novel follows Aliet Paul, born beneath a tree sacred to generations of Mi’kmaw women and raised by her grandmother, Kiju, outside a small Nova Scotia town. As Aliet grows up, her life is shaped by her grandmother’s traditional knowledge, changing attitudes toward midwifery, and the steady presence of John.
Years later, Aliet returns after Kiju’s death to a deteriorating family home and a community that has scattered. As she restores the house, she begins to uncover silences around her family history and her mother’s final moments. The novel will appeal to readers of Canadian and Indigenous historical fiction interested in family legacy, traditional midwifery, and the lives of women across generations.
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