As 17-year-old Maura Ellard is leaving the women\u2019s clinic where she terminated her pregnancy, she\u2019s spotted by Maxine, a classmate she barely knows, who later violates her privacy by revealing this information on social media. Maura is comfortable with the choice she made\u2014she\u2019s relieved, knowing she did the right thing for herself\u2014but she wanted to keep it private: \u201cMy body isn\u2019t a freaking political statement.\u201d Instead, she\u2019s barraged by online harassment and snubbed by her best friend. She also has to deal with her mom\u2019s and ex-boyfriend\u2019s feelings. She deletes all her social media apps, a move that makes her feel like she \u201cjust ate a cup of warm chicken noodle soup.\u201d The only person Maura feels comfortable with is Dane, a new classmate from Toronto. As her feelings for him develop, Maura faces the rumor that her pregnancy was the result of an assault and must decide how far she\u2019ll go to prove it\u2019s untrue. In this well-written work for striving readers, Maura is refreshingly straightforward about her choice to have an abortion even as she struggles with everyone else\u2019s opinions. Whatever their own feelings on the matter, readers will sympathize with Maura when personal information is shared online without her consent and root for her to find a healthy new relationship. Most characters are cued white.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As 17-year-old Maura Ellard is leaving the women\u2019s clinic where she terminated her pregnancy, she\u2019s spotted by Maxine, a classmate she barely knows, who later violates her privacy by revealing this information on social media. Maura is comfortable with the choice she made\u2014she\u2019s relieved, knowing she did the right thing for herself\u2014but she wanted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}