Fiction

Granted, it's got all the millennial triggers - parent suicide, other person raised by a single parent, sexual abuse by a stepfather, abandonment, and a gay sister. But I absolutely can't get past the judge-y abortion stuff.

The women in my group have read "The Handmaid's Tale"; they're all lapping it up on Netflix at the moment. The problem isn't so much that they are conservative - they aren't in the least. My actual issue is that they won't see this as an anti-abortion book!

I'm a bit older than most (not all) of them, and maybe just have a more liberal view of it. I don't consider a three-week old batch of cells a living being. In this book, everyone does!! If there had been any character development (which there isn't), I'd say that all the characters had been poisoned by this one act.