A Pediatra

Brisk and unsentimental, Cecília runs a thriving practice until families start going to a new colleague who embraces birth at home, midwives and doulas; even the surgeon who delivers by caesarean and always sent cases her way seems to have defected. Contemptuous of natural childbirth and holistic remedies, she sets out to spy on the women who choose them. Meanwhile she has a lover who is someone else's husband, and whose little boy she looked after at birth, and that child begins to stir something in her she has never felt.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

160 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil

First published

2021 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9786559213481 (original)