Camille is having a pretty amazing junior year. Her theater friends are the best, her talent and grades are sure to get her into Carnegie Mellon, and she's pretty sure Leo - Hamlet to her Ophelia in the local production - feels the same spark that she does. But on closing night, an evening that should be the highlight of her year, she discovers something awful: she's pregnant. Camille has no doubt that she wants an abortion, but getting one as a 16-year-old in Texas proves much more challenging-emotionally, logistically, legally-than she ever could have imagined. Unable to talk to her friends about it and terrified to tell her parents, she reaches out to Annabelle, a young woman Camille only kind of knows but who might understand her ordeal. Annabelle readily agrees to help Camille, and the two girls set off on an epic road trip that will change the way they see the world and themselves. Girls on The Verge is a stunning portrait of young female friendship and a thoughtful look at issues that affect women everywhere. Filled with humor and light, Sharon Biggs Waller takes the reader on an unforgettable journey about reclaiming one's right to her own body.
Girls on The Verge -
Sharon Biggs Waller
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
2019
288 páginas
9h 36m
ISBN-10: 1250151694
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Sharon Biggs Waller
Sharon Biggs Waller is the Friends of American Writers-award winning author of A Mad, Wicked Folly and The Forbidden Orchid. She also writes for magazines about horses, chickens, and farming. Previously, she worked as a riding instructor at the Royal Mews in Buckingham Palace. In addition to writing, she is a dressage rider and trainer and Planned Parenthood volunteer. She lives on a ten-acre sustainable farm in Northwest Indiana with her husband, Mark
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