Accabadora
Murgia, Michela / Mazzarella, Silvester
A stunning portrait of rural Italy in the 1950s and "a touching meditation on life and death and the power of love to bind, transcend, and let go" (Publishers Weekly).At one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai of Sardinia has a long-held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ending it, she is revered and feared in equal measure as her village's Accabadora. When Bonaria adopts Maria, th...
