Ms. March grew up in a solidly white farming community in North Alabama, the granddaughter of German immigrants. She came of age in the early 60s working as an emergency room nurse in Birmingham at...view moreMs. March grew up in a solidly white farming community in North Alabama, the granddaughter of German immigrants. She came of age in the early 60s working as an emergency room nurse in Birmingham at the height of the civil rights struggle. She later worked as a midwife in a refugee camp in Bangladesh and as a home health nurse in the mountains of northern Pakistan. She claims a unique perspective on the commonality of the human condition, a perspective brought to bear in her first novel, a story about people that might have been set anywhere. She lives with her husband in Mobile, Alabama.view less