Playing Catch

What happens when a hip thirtysomething journalist for a major metropolitan daily newspaper abandons her prestigious career to become a nurse-midwife? Playing Catch: A Midwife's Memoirs chronicles the adventures of Sarah Porter as she embarks on a career path awash in peril -- and body fluids. With fortitude humor and a sarcastic self-critical eye Sarah weathers the humiliation of nursing school lands smack in the middle of the crack cocaine epidemic as a new nurse and is finally painfully initiated into midwifery. Told through Sarah's eyes Playing Catch is not a crunchy saffron-colored look at midwifery. It is a gritty sexy hilarious take on the modern world of birthing babies. In the end Sarah must decide whether the transcendence and satisfaction she experiences as a midwife outweigh the exhaustion self-doubt and ethical dilemmas she faces daily.