Eleven Hours

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Lore arrives at the hospital alone. Her birth plan is explicit: she wants no fetal monitor, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward-- herself on the verge of showing-- is patient with the young woman. In the midst of a difficult labor they are forced to reckon with their pasts and re-create their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love triangle; Franckline must move beyond past traumas to accept the life that's waiting for her.

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Excellent Read submitted by pk on August 29, 2016, 9:33am This is a great book by Erens, well written and engaging. The book is written without chapters, though there are a few breaks, giving you the feel of the 11 hours that these two women spend together. The author brings out their stories slowly, and you learn what brought both of them to this point - an NYC hospital's maternity section. The ending is not neatly wrapped up, but it's a good thing. Well worth your time to read this short novel.

Very good submitted by Lucy S on July 1, 2018, 12:36pm Despite the fact that certain passages evoke the visceral pain of childbirth, the novel is so well written, the flow of 2 women's tandem eleven hours so well described, that the book is hard to put down, a striking and gratifying read.