annettagreen11 's review for:

Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh

5.0

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A story abt a weed dealer, an anti abortion activist, a proliferation protester, and an abortion clinic worker and the ways their lives intersect. It’s interesting b/c while the novel is abt an abortion clinic, 3 of the main characters are men in various stages of messed up. It makes for an interesting read and is less abt abortion (although that’s def there) than abt how these ppl came to their understandings of the abortion debate (or came to sell weed and then—with weed abt to be legalized—realized their career options were limited). Funnier than I expected, too.