![]() Old Meg is going to the Dead Forest out of fear that she will be arrested next. Old Meg tells Gaia that her parents have been arrested. Gaia does her duty, however, because she is a loyal citizen serving the Enclave.Īs Gaia makes her way home she runs into Old Meg, her mother's assistant. The child, a girl, is the mother's first, making it that much more of a burden for Gaia to have to advance it to the Enclave. ![]() ![]() As the novel opens, Gaia is delivering her first child. Gaia has studied midwifery under her mother. Gaia Stone has just turned sixteen, the age at which she is deemed old enough to practice her own trade. "Birthmarked" is a passionate novel about family, loyalty, and coming of age in a world governed by fear. Gaia is quickly arrested and interrogated, forced to choose between death and the betrayal of her parents. However, on the way to find her mother, Gaia witnesses the execution of a pregnant woman and finds herself compelled to save the child. When Gaia learns that her parents are to be executed for their crimes, she sneaks into the Enclave to speak with her mother one last time. When Gaia returns home, she discovers that her parents have been arrested for unspecified crimes against the Enclave. In this novel, Gaia is a midwife who has just delivered her first solo baby. ![]() "Birthmarked" is a novel by writer Caragh M. ![]()
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