Description: Midwives is one of those rare novels that has been read and recommended with great passion by reviewers, booksellers, and readers alike, and was Oprah Winfrey's Book Club selection for November 1998. It received a NEBA Discover Award and was one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 1997. Jessica lange will star in the ABC television movie.

The law of Similars is a fitting successor, a powerful story of three people whose lives are irrevocably changed by illness, love, and healing. Two years after his wife's death, Chief Deputy State's Attorney Leland Fowler finds that the stress of raising their small daughter alone has left him with a chronic sore throat. Desperate to try anything that might help, Leland turns to homeopath Carissa Lake, who cures both his throat and the aching loneliness at the root of his symptoms. Just days after their affair begins, however, one of Carissa's asthma patients falls into an allergy-induced coma. Suddenly Carissa is under investigation and straight-arrow Leland is faced with a moral and ethical dilemma of enormous proportions.

Chris Bohjalian's direction and control of a storyline are masterful, and his observations of the fragile threads that hold families together during hard times are exquisite. Moving, sexy, and powerfully realized, The Law of Similars will further solidify Bohjalian's reputation as "one of the finest realistic writers at work in this country today". (Howard Frank Mosher)

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