ook felt like it was setting you up for answers that it did not want to give.

Overall I think it is a easy read and a important topic that should be discussed more, that is even more relevant now with Roe v Wade and abortion rights under attack. I just wish the book was more impactful like I know it could have been31:T5fc,I urge everyone to read this book. Even if you don’t have time to read the full novel, it’s important to know the true story that inspired it. I’ve included links at the bottoms of this review, but they will contain spoilers to what transpires in the story, so proceed with caution.

I’m quite frankly horrified, and I’m not sure what to do with the intense amount of anger this book has stirred within me. It’s one thing to be marginally aware of this dark history, but it’s another to read a fictional account of something that happened to innocent young women. It sickens me, but history is doomed to repeat itself if we look the other way.

This book cannot have been published at a more poignant time. To read a story about reproductive rights set in 1973, knowing what happens almost 50 years later is sobering to say the least. It highlights the importance of choice in multiple different ways, and empathetically outlines a situation many, myself included, did not even know had happened.

I’m grateful to have discovered this novel, and I hope it had the impact on others as it has had on me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/magazine/eugenics-movement-america.html

https://americanhistory.si.edu/girlhood/wellness/talking-about-sex/experimenting-girls-of-color

https://www.history.com/.amp/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study

https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-race-and-ethnicity-syphilis-e9dd07eaa4e74052878a68132cd3803a

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