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The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church
4.0
I received an audio arc for review from Netgalley.
As a women, a mother and a daughter living in a time when unwed mothers are still judged, but certainly not as harshly, a time when women's rights are diminishing instead of growing, a time when we're fighting the battles we thought were long fought - I was so entrenched in this audiobook, feeling it so deeply, empathizing with Lorraine and the other girls in the maternity home. The girls who were never given a choice about what would happen next. The girls who had hopes and dreams, as diverse as they may have been, for what their futures would become. The girls who were treated like parriahs and outcasts and kept hidden away while they incubated babies they'd have no choice but to give up whether that was their wish or not. My heart shattered for these girls, for the experience they had, for sweet Mirabelle and the trauma she endured, for each of these young women who were expected to just "go back to normal" after their lives were forever changed. Betty's hidden past and slight redemption arc was wrought with heartache, and it made me ache for how her and her daughter had a shared secret past. I appreciated the realism of the end of this book, the effort to hold authenticity instead of wrapping everything up in a perfect little bow.
As a women, a mother and a daughter living in a time when unwed mothers are still judged, but certainly not as harshly, a time when women's rights are diminishing instead of growing, a time when we're fighting the battles we thought were long fought - I was so entrenched in this audiobook, feeling it so deeply, empathizing with Lorraine and the other girls in the maternity home. The girls who were never given a choice about what would happen next. The girls who had hopes and dreams, as diverse as they may have been, for what their futures would become. The girls who were treated like parriahs and outcasts and kept hidden away while they incubated babies they'd have no choice but to give up whether that was their wish or not. My heart shattered for these girls, for the experience they had, for sweet Mirabelle and the trauma she endured, for each of these young women who were expected to just "go back to normal" after their lives were forever changed. Betty's hidden past and slight redemption arc was wrought with heartache, and it made me ache for how her and her daughter had a shared secret past. I appreciated the realism of the end of this book, the effort to hold authenticity instead of wrapping everything up in a perfect little bow.