For women like me, who came to maturity before the 1960s, the specter of illegal and unsafe abortion is as much of a horror as the reaction of those who view a terminated pregnancy as murder. In those days there was no “pill” and the only means of obtaining a contraceptive device was through a [...]
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Praise for A Sky for Arcadia
Janet Taliaferro has written far more than a cautionary tale about the long-armed reach of addiction. A Sky for Arcadia should hold a place on the required reading list of anyone prepared to take a clear-eyed look at not only the primary, but the tertiary damage any substance abuse visits upon relationships and honesty and [...]
