I was very intrigued by the title and the subject of this book. Abortion, pro-choice etc are very much in the current news, unfortunately! I enjoyed this book for awhile, but lost track of what was actually going on during the last 1/2 of the book.

such an important book at such a devastating and horrible time for so many. i have so much i could and would say on this. deaf ears at the moment springs to mind when i think about doing so though. and that in itself is all the more depressing. we live in really scary times for woman right now. so i applaud any woman and any woman with a book trying to get anything out there on this. standing above the parapet right now isn't easy. and often dangerous for woman. so i applaud those who do. if i can support that by reading this book than its a tiny piece of my thanks for those being brave and fighting back.
it isn't a book that preaches or tries to hard. it isn't a book that makes snap judgements or tries to make points where they shouldn't be. its simply there. as it is. complex stories and feelings to follow. each one gave me moments of thought. each one of these stories weaves around the central point of woman and their right to choose. and if they cant? what then? ever what then?
this book is fictional yes, but it spheres around a very real event and ruling that took the right of woman away. it took their choice away from something only they could ever real make the choice of. so much thinking from this book. im glad for anything that stands with woman on this, that gets it out there in any way we can. sadly i felt low at points that we are indeed with the very real ramifications of this event, in real time, all around us. and sadly for woman this is filtering out and taken to many points of the life of woman and their choices. rights. treatment.

So much I wanted to love about this book: the theme, abortion, pro-choice and anger; the mother-daughter dynamic; the fascinating true historical figure Christine de Pizan.... But the experimental style made it complex to follow and I struggled with it.
I would definitely recommend this to readers who are interested in the themes and who are more open than I am to more experimental writing styles.

I raced to half way in this book. I liked the humour and being pro choice myself, really enjoyed the arguments raised by the author. However frequently I had to ask “wtf is going on”, which to be fair I don’t really have too much of an issue with. But I just didn’t have a clue who Paula and Christine were (or weren’t) and it hampered my full enjoyment of the book.
3.5⭐️