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Ami McKay’s debut novel, The Birth House was a # 1 bestseller in Canada, winner of three CBA Libris Awards, nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and a book club favourite around the world.

Her new novel. The Virgin Cure, is inspired by the life of her great- great grandmother, Dr. Sarah Fonda Mackintosh, a female physician in nineteenth century New York. Born and raised in Indiana, Ami now lives in Nova Scotia.


When I write, I require equal measures of concentration and solitude. Everything I do begins to move into the realm of meditative practice. Baking bread, walking the dog, digging a new bed in the garden. On any given day, these activities can hold vast meaning, and, on truly remarkable days, they bring about a blessed untangling of thoughts in my mind. 2. Heaven – Haven A nun takes the veil I h... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.91 · 18,299 ratings · 2,130 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
The Birth House
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 13,819 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions
The Virgin Cure
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 4,498 ratings — published 2011 — 18 editions
Jerome: The Historical Spec...
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008

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When I write, I require equal measures of concentration and solitude. Everything I do begins to move into the realm of meditative practice. Baking... Read more of this blog post »
The Birth House by Ami McKay
" I have been wanting to read this for sometime. I read a review in a magazine and thought it sounded good, but kind of forgot about it until Paula read it and LOVED it (at least I got that impression) and renewed my interest in ti and she when I sa... " Read more of this review »
The Birth House by Ami McKay
" I really enjoyed this book. I read it in about two days. It is very engrossing. Part of its attraction for me is undoubtedly because I am very interested in birth. This is a fascinating look at birth practices during WWI era Canada. Rural midwives... " Read more of this review »
The Birth House by Ami McKay
" Since I bought this the first month it came out, I have read it multiple times, and I am likely to read it again.
Ami McKay paints a picture of a time when midwives were the most called upon form of doctor, not just for childbirth, but for all of t... " Read more of this review »
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I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.Ray Bradbury
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A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")Ray Bradbury
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More of Ami's books…
“No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.”
Ami McKay, The Birth House

“If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.”
Ami McKay, The Birth House

“How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.”
Ami McKay, The Birth House

Topics Mentioning This Author

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
Neil Gaiman

“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")”
Ray Bradbury, Long After Midnight

“I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.”
Ray Bradbury, Long After Midnight




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