Description

A sixteenyearold girls 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 cant entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test She didnt 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 shes planning a crosscountry road trip to her grandmothers 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 reststop diner and corny roadside attraction along the way

And while Ivy cant 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