Angela is undergoing another stressful round of in vitro fertilization attempts for a desperately wanted pregnancy in 2017. Nancy is horrified after she begrudgingly accompanies a friend to an illegal abortion in 1979, when the two are in their teens. Years later, when Angela discovers it in a dusty antique drawer, it sends her down a road of discovery as she digs through generations of women in an effort to reunite the letter with its intended recipient.īut, despite the author's clear stand on the side of abortion rights for all women, the novel is well-rounded in its representation of women in various stages of their lives with different reproductive goals. The story kicks off with a striking prologue: A letter informing Nancy that she was adopted is misdelivered, then misplaced. Gripping from the moment it begins, Heather Marshall’s novel “Looking for Jane” is getting a well-deserved re-release to hit the post-Roe v. “Looking for Jane” by Heather Marshall (Atria)
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