Though every time period must have some progressives, some modern women. She was a very modern woman for her time, something that bothered me a bit while reading. The majority of our discussion revolved around Ana. It would be like recreational marijuana is now. With the way US law works, the decision to criminalize would go to the states and its likely some more liberal states would decriminalize it while more conservative ones would outlaw.
With the availability of oral contraceptives, it might not be as prevalent, but it could still happen. Could we see these again? Many felt it was likely. Anthony Comstock was a real person and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice was real. We asked ourselves if a situation like the one presented in this book, of dangerous abortions, could happen in the US if Roe v Wade was repealed and abortion was criminalized again. We’ll finally figure out who the murderer was! (The ambulance driver? One of the doctors in the inquest?) There was so much content in this first novel that we must imagine the second and third books will be bloated with content as well. We found out the sequel to this book comes out in September.
However, Mother Nature had other plans and we pushed the book back to March to accommodate. I finished reading this book back in December and we were supposed to meet in January to discuss it. After much delay, my book club was finally able to meet and discuss The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati.
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