Susan DenmanSusan Denman is a physician who grew up on a dairy farm in the Catskill mountains. When she was a college student she spent one summer working at a rural hospital near her home. Her experience there as a nurse's aide inspired "Liberty Loomis," her _ st novel. It is a coming of age story about a naïve young woman who comes face to face with a clash of cultures, crippling illnesses, domestic violence and death. The summer at Liberty Loomis Hospital triggers her recollection of a long suppressed painful childhood memory. Its haunting damage reaches far beyond her family and her insular world. Dr. Denman currently lives with her family near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Read More Read Less