Desert Birthright
A Midwife's Memoir
Published on 3. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-64769-248-3 (ISBN)
Description
The coming-of-age memoir of a homebirth midwife in the desert Southwest. Within these birth stories is a larger story of Wrankle leaving her childhood religion and raising her three children in the culturally harsh and unforgiving landscape of southern Utah.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Salt Lake City
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64769-248-3 (9781647692483)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Lori Wrankle (1972 - 2025) was a lay midwife with twenty-five years of experience. She has delivered hundreds of babies, primarily serving Mormon women of southern Utah and northern Arizona.