Surrendering Babies

I want to keep shameless self-promotion to a minimum here, but I’ve reviewed a book that deserves much wider notice than it has gotten. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade is, in my judgment, one of the most important books of the last couple of years, perhaps the decade. Check out my review of it, originally published in the Iowa Review, now available online at the Mothers Movement.