A sixteen-year-old girl's road trip across the country to get an
abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength,
and above all, choice. From the acclaimed author of A Heart in a Body
in the World, this is both an achingly tender love story and a bold,
badly needed battle cry about bodily autonomy and the experiences that
connect us.
Ivy can't entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test.
She didn't even know it was possible from . . . what happened. But it
is, and now she is, and instead of spending the summer working at the
local drugstore and swooning over her boyfriend, Lorenzo, suddenly she's
planning a cross-country road trip to her grandmother's house on the
West Coast, where she can legally obtain an abortion.
Escaping her small Texas town and the judgment of her friends and
neighbors, Ivy hits the road with Lorenzo, who, determined to make the
best of their "abortion road trip love story," has transformed the
journey into a whirlwind tour of the world: all the way from Paris,
Texas, to Rome, Oregon . . . and every rest-stop diner and corny
roadside attraction along the way.
And while Ivy can't run from the incessant pressure of others' opinions
about her body or from her own expectations and insecurities, she
discovers a new world of healing and hope. As the women she encounters
share their stories, she chips away at the stigma, silence, and shame
surrounding reproductive rights while those collective experiences guide
her to her own rightful destination.
