Crystal Serrano U11387176 Cultural Anthropology November 24, 2017 Monique and The Mango Rains The book Monique and The Mango Rains is a book that is focused on the friendship between the author, Kris Holloway and Monique Dembele. Monique is a midwife in Nampossela, Mali; she has focused her life on making childbirth easier on many of the women in her community. Due to Mali being in terrible conditions birth became a life of death situation when death was predominately winning. Kris Holloway was working for the Peace Corps and became Monique “assistant”, because they worked together for two years they managed to grow a very genuine relationship. Kris job wasn 't exactly the same as Monique’s, according to her she worked more with the surroundings other than the patient itself. She was focused on educate the families on healthier lives, help converse fuel, fix water supply… so on and so forth. For the reason that Monique was the only one qualified to preform this type of work with this amount of quality they decided to work together and help and make Nampossela’s health care better. Monique is mostly focused on pre birth visits, the actual birth of the baby, post birth visits, keep track of medical records and vaccinations, and treat a couple of medical complications that can come along the way after post birth, for the mom as well as the child. Even thought these two went through hell and back, trying to get the best resources and give they best care they could in a third