Midwives

by Chris Bohjalian

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I have a new novel arriving May 10, The Lioness. Imagine – to paraphrase Jordy’s Book Club – Evelyn Hugo meets Jurassic Park (or, perhaps, The Poisonwood Bible meets And Then There Were None). It’s an historical thriller set in Hollywood and the Serengeti in 1964. A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a movie star and her entourage. You can learn lots about it on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58537058-the-lioness Or read the early reviews here: https://chrisbohjalian.com/the-lioness/ Obviously, it’s a very different book from Midwives. But my goal as a novelist is never to write the same book twice. And, still, I think readers will see that the two novels share a few of the elements that seem to mark my fiction: strong, smart, courageous women; what I hope is page-turning suspense; and, to harken back to some of the passages many of you noted above, the fact that simply being alive is a risky affair, and we make the best choices we can. Thank you, as always, for your faith in my work – and in what words and reading and books can mean to the soul.