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My four stars are an average of five stars for the concept (because I believe any book that dares to take on the pro/anti-choice debate as openly and honestly as this one does deserves to be read and discussed) and three stars for the execution (which I think could have been better but wasn't all that bad). The structure of this book didn't really work for me, but I'm still trying to figure out why. I usually like multi-POV stories—I loved Picoult's Leaving Time and Small Great Things, for examp
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I like Jodi Picoult for how she shows different sides of an issue, but this story of a shooting/hostage situation at an abortion clinic was just too hard for me. It wasn’t the different opinions, but just sitting with (in) this for days that was difficult.
Feb 08, 2019
Tanya
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For me, this was a 3.5 book-I thought the various perspectives and circumstances really flushed out a variety of reasons people come to a clinic such as this. And as a result it underscored the need for dialogs and listening. It would be a tough novel to discuss at a book club and likely wouldn’t persuade readers to a different point of view than s/he already has. Bit if it could move the dialog to other preceding events and a look at society dynamics, such as having access to adequate birth con
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Sep 14, 2018
Shanna
marked it as to-read
Oct 20, 2021
Daina
marked it as books-on-my-windowsill
Jun 27, 2022
Juliana Philippa
marked it as to-read
