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Wow, I loved this. On the edge on my seat and finished it in two days.

It‘s about a newly graduated Black nurse in Alabama working at a family planning clinic in 1973, shortly after the uncovering of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments. She fiercely fights for her patients, including a pair of young girls, ages 11 and 13. This novel jumps through time between 1973 and 2016 where she reflects on their case.

Highly recommended.

Willow helping me read outside today.

Borrowed from a friend who‘s also a #botm BFF!

Have high expectations for this one!

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PROMPT: WITH PHYSICIAN

Jane, a physician's wife, was the new social worker dealing with the Hart and Jordan families.

NECESSARY LIES is the perfect title because lies were necessary for the characters to survive.  It is heart wrenching yet informative as you follow the characters through their inadequate, restricted days.

FULL REVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/2p9h2vv8

Oh I really loved this emotional, heart-breaking audiobook. I couldn‘t stop listening to it! With two narrators sections dealing with past & present, the book opens with Rosie, 17, orphaned & pregnant, on her way to what she thought was a home for mothers but is instead a hospital with a much darker mission. Helen, a nanny in Austria for a family with a disabled child is among the first to see the truth of the Nazi regime. Keep the tissues handy!

If you haven‘t read this book yet, you MUST get it in paperback.

FULL CELEBRATION AND REVIEW HERE: https://tinyurl.com/3arhnpsm

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Thank you @bookbrowse for the book discussion win!!

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Finally started this today… Takes place in my home state and my hometown is mentioned in the beginning. A win win!!!

God this story was heartbreaking and beautiful!!! All of Susan Meissner‘s historical fiction novels are amazing and this is right up at the top. I won‘t give too much away, but I will say that it deals with eugenics around the time of WWII, including in America which I hadn‘t really read about before, as well as what makes a family. Just so much loss and hope and tenderness! Ahhh I loved it! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Well deserving Pulitzer Prize winner. This short novel is not a quick read as the language is dense and circumstances of the inhabitants on this island off Casco Bay in Maine is a sad story. This novel fictionalizes the mixed race island community of Malaga Island, an existence that was too much for the early 20th century to let alone.