9. Please read the Author's Note at the end of the book, thoughts?

[Carol]

9. Please read the Author's Note at the end of the book, thoughts?

[Chelsea]

I liked that she did a typical sterilization story vs one that was pretty horrific (like dad molesting daughter one!). Made my eyes open to what "normal" meant to them, and still how wrong it was.

[Chelsea]

Also, I did try to watch the video she talked about where the victims got to share their stories. It was over 2 hours long and I only got a chance to watch the first guy (lots of formalization stuff at the beginning.) I want to watch more though. The first guy was 14 when he was sterilized, and later got married but could never have kids. Sad.

[Darlene]

I liked how she made this story a story about a family and wove into it the sterilization issue. She educated me about society and issues of the times. I appreciated how sterilization was not the major theme of the book, but a subtopic..... much of how life was at the time.

[Cindy]

The best novels are like this, I think. The author takes real events as inspiration, then builds a story to illuminate the human toll.

[Pam]

Totally agree with everyone!

[Carol]

I''m coincidentally reading a book about a father that seriously raped, harmed, hurt and molested his daughter. It is very sad to have that kind of foundation of which she was raised. She was only 8 years old. Affected me a lot. Sterilization could have saved that family, and protected a little girl that was affected by this treatment all her life - with bad nightmares, training and so forth. There is overlap with these and I hope they can make it work.