How to Plot an Abortion
The LRB Podcast
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Anne Knows Decision to Write About Her Own Abortion
Anne Lamott wrote Liz Amaweed shortly before abortion was legalized in France. Did the novel help? Is it well with that campaign? I mean, is it? Did it manage to change the way that people were able to talk and think about abortion? This is the question that I can answer very well. But what is really unusual about the novel is that there isn't really an abortion plot. It's this story about class alienation as much as a story about abortion.
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