Waiting for the Kick: A Midwife's Grief and Rebirth in Africa

After heartbreak in Pennsylvania, a forty-five-year-old widow journeys to Sudan's war zone, where a chaotic maternity ward teaches her a new kind of strength-and becomes her path to healing.

When Sheila's husband died, grief didn't just visit-it swallowed her whole. She didn't want casseroles or kind words. She wanted out.

Broken and carrying a battered rucksack, she joined a humanitarian mission in war-torn South Sudan, where gunfire drove her under delivery-room tables and days blurred as...