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A review by smalltownbookmom
Plan A by Deb Caletti
5.0
THIS. BOOK!! My first by this bestselling author, it is definitely going down as one of the most important and powerful YA reads of 2023!!
Set in small town Texas, this is not your usual YA summer road trip romance. The characters themselves dub it their "abortion road trip love story" and it IS that but also SO MUCH MORE!!! Ivy is a fifteen year old girl who finds herself pregnant after getting forced into a nonconsensual sexual encounter (not technically rape, but still a situation no one should find themselves in).
Left reeling, least of all because she is already over the six week deadline to get a legal abortion in Texas. Thankfully Ivy's mother is super supportive and allows her to go on a road trip to Oregon, where her grandmother lives and where abortions are legal.
Traveling with her friend and not yet boyfriend, Lorenzo, (not the father of the baby), Ivy finds herself slowly falling more and more in love with the steadfast, solid boy beside her while also hearing about a number of other women's own pregnancy and abortion stories.
She learns that 1 in 4 women have abortions and its a more common thing that's happened from the time men and women were having sex. Learning that "you don't know you're in a secret network until you're in it" is one of the lessons her aunt imparts and it's so true!
This book will make you RAGE and CRY along with Ivy as she learns just how lucky she is to have the support and means to obtain a legal abortion when SO many others in America don't. Books like this one are more important than ever and I'm so glad the author wrote this one and teens like Ivy will be able to learn they aren't alone.
FANTASTIC on audio narrated by Jorjeana Marie, this book read almost like a spoken word poem. While I did find the narrator a bit slow-speaking (I listened in an app that didn't go past 2x), overall her performance was captivating and so well done! Many thanks to @prhaudio for the complimentary ALC in exchange for my honest review!!!
CW: abortion, sexual abuse, parent with cancer, slut-shaming, homophobia
Set in small town Texas, this is not your usual YA summer road trip romance. The characters themselves dub it their "abortion road trip love story" and it IS that but also SO MUCH MORE!!! Ivy is a fifteen year old girl who finds herself pregnant after getting forced into a nonconsensual sexual encounter (not technically rape, but still a situation no one should find themselves in).
Left reeling, least of all because she is already over the six week deadline to get a legal abortion in Texas. Thankfully Ivy's mother is super supportive and allows her to go on a road trip to Oregon, where her grandmother lives and where abortions are legal.
Traveling with her friend and not yet boyfriend, Lorenzo, (not the father of the baby), Ivy finds herself slowly falling more and more in love with the steadfast, solid boy beside her while also hearing about a number of other women's own pregnancy and abortion stories.
She learns that 1 in 4 women have abortions and its a more common thing that's happened from the time men and women were having sex. Learning that "you don't know you're in a secret network until you're in it" is one of the lessons her aunt imparts and it's so true!
This book will make you RAGE and CRY along with Ivy as she learns just how lucky she is to have the support and means to obtain a legal abortion when SO many others in America don't. Books like this one are more important than ever and I'm so glad the author wrote this one and teens like Ivy will be able to learn they aren't alone.
FANTASTIC on audio narrated by Jorjeana Marie, this book read almost like a spoken word poem. While I did find the narrator a bit slow-speaking (I listened in an app that didn't go past 2x), overall her performance was captivating and so well done! Many thanks to @prhaudio for the complimentary ALC in exchange for my honest review!!!
CW: abortion, sexual abuse, parent with cancer, slut-shaming, homophobia