![]() ![]() Not only did this book paint abortion in a fairly neutral shade, it turned out that the abortion wasn’t even necessarily the main plot line. It turned out that I was cautious for no good reason. As a tremendous advocate for keeping one person’s opinions out of another person’s uterus, I was almost a little bit wary – would this book be problematic? Would it highlight abortion as an act of evil, or a move of desperation from a teenage girl not yet fit for motherhood? When I first heard about this book, I knew I had to snatch it up, because I can’t say that I’ve ever read a YA contemporary book that was willing to tackle abortion as a main topic – especially not in a pro-choice lighting. Living as a seventeen-year-old with a deceased father and an emotionally absent mother, life hasn’t been easy, but this form of grief is all new territory for Gen, and she’s going to have to find healing in any way she can get it: even if it means returning to the stage she never thought she’d have the strength to face again. ![]() He won’t answer his phone, and rumors are flying that he’s already moved on to her former best friend, Vanessa. Genesis did everything she could to prepare for the abortion, but nothing could steady her for how it would feel to walk out into an empty waiting room, without so much as a good-bye text from the boyfriend who left her there: alone, wounded, and sixty miles from home. ![]()
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