Parravani never lets us feel that a news item is anything less than terrifyingly, corporeally personal.

Ultimately, Parravani is interested in how individual women make reproductive choices in the face of complex geographical, medical and financial circumstances. In tangible and heartbreaking ways, she illustrates how each of these things impacts both her already born daughters and her soon-to-arrive son. In particular, the medical care she receives in West Virginia makes this reviewer cringe.

... luminous, complex.

Parravani exposes motherhood’s serrated edges in this searing exploration of love, autonomy, and abortion.

... intimate, affecting.