Waiting for the Kick

by Sheila Kimble-Haas

2026 · Paperback, eBook

A widowed nurse-midwife rebuilds her life through a medical mission in South Sudan, delivering babies in mud-walled clinics amid civil unrest and finding purpose in grief.

Why it’s here: Its narrator is 45 rather than 50+, but this widow’s grief-and-rebirth story of reinvention and purpose resonates well beyond her exact age.

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