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No Perfect Mothers, written by Karen Spears Zacharias.
1920’s SCOTUS case re: Reproductive Rights, meets Charlottesville's Carrie Buck, who knows a thing or two about how hard some men will fight to gain control over a young girl's body.
This story is important because it is history that isn't history—women still don't have sovereignty of their reproductive rights. This story is propulsive because it gives us a character to root for. This story is memorable because of Zacharias' command of language and insight into human nature. No Perfect Mothers is a book that provides all the pleasures of a great novel and then some.
--Beth Ann Fennelly, Author of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs