laurengorla 's review for:

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright

4.0

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While extremely interesting, this is the densest book I’ve picked up in awhile (hence why it took me months of picking it up and putting it down again before I forced myself to plow through the last ~100 pages). I enjoyed the author’s tone and connections to health care today, but just know this is more text book reading than storytelling.