Join Deputy Director Katie Werth for a discussion of Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon.

Maine, 1789. Martha Ballard is summoned to examine a body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by the man found dead in the ice. When a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.

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