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Cargando... Looking for Jane: A Novel (2022 original; edición 2024)por Heather Marshall (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Very solid storytelling with good structure, well-paced and fully fleshed characters. ( ) Looking for Jane is an emotional roller coaster about motherhood and the choices women face while pregnant. It crosses several timelines, showing the inhumane treatment that some young girls faced when pregnant while single. It looks at the danger of poor medical care, and the homes that housed unwed mothers. Reading this book made me sad for the women who underwent such treatment and for those that are facing difficult choices today, as to whether to carry a pregnancy to term. The story also follows women who made a choice, willingly or not, and the consequences. It is also a story of a mother and daughter searching for each other. Moving story. Although set in Canada, this story is especially relevant in the United States after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, which leads to untenable options for unwanted pregnancies. The timeline covers the early 1960s to 2017 for a variety of women. The homes for unwed mothers in the l960s meant family shame and often unwanted relinquishment of their babies for profit. We already have a broken foster care system, which is where too many children land when their parents cannot or will not be responsible for them. Now the burden is even heavier with unwanted children ending up in foster care. This debut novel takes on difficult topics and the choices women make when abortions are illegal, often ending in death and infertility by unscrupulous abortionists. The courage evidenced by the doctors and volunteers who established the recourse for women to obtain legal, safe abortions in the "Jane" network is noteworthy then and now. There is a memorable phrase in this book that would be a mantra in a perfect world - "Every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother." sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane. 1971: As a teenager, Dr Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for 'fallen' women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoption - a trauma she has never recovered from. Despite the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had. 1980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, 20-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. Grappling with her decision, she locates 'Jane' and finds a place alongside Dr Taylor within the network's ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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