Lillian Nattel won the Martin & Beatrice Fischer Prize for Fiction for this extraordinary, best-selling novel set in an imaginary Polish village. In The River Midnight, the year is 1894 and Misha, a midwife, holds court in the marketplace. Everyone knows when a secret passes the ears of Misha, it never passes her lips. Among the hidden gems she holds deep inside are the wonderful, youthful adventures she had as a member of the vilda hayas or wild creatures — a mischievous group of young females. She has not seen her chums for years, but when things begin to take a turn for the worst in Europe, the women’s lives suddenly converge once again. | The River Midnight by Lilian Nattel, Paperback | Indigo Chapters