Set in 1969, Leaving Cecil Street takes place in a proud neighborhood of West Philadelphia. The block has just thrown a summertime street party. Joe and Louise have been married for a while, and Joe loves his wife. But sometimes he wonders what might have been if he had pursued some of those dreams he left behind.

"An informed and arresting debut novel about a young surgeon in crisis, by a writer whose "exactitude of expression is rare and uncanny." (Rachel Cusk) Nancy Mullion, an obstetrician-gynecologist whose botched surgery has put a patient in a life-threatening coma, must face a medical tribunal to determine if she can continue to practice medicine. Nancy's fears about both her patient's chances for survival and whether she will be "undoctored" are made...

"Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their own impossible choices--an unforgettable, beautiful novel that is threaded throughout with the stories of mothers and daughters in pre-Roe versus Wade America. Life heads down back alleys, takes sharp left turns. Then, one fine day...

Questioning everything after deciding to terminate an unexpected pregnancy, 17-year-old Genesis works to establish her identity apart from her ex while confronting her most painful memories and rediscovering a long-forgotten dream. Peter promised to support Genesis through the abortion, but abandoned her at the Planned Parenthood during the appointment. Now she is working to establish her identity, confronting her most painful memories, and rediscovering...

"When theater director Sylvia Tanisman wins her first Tony award, her husband uses the occasion to announce he’s divorcing her. Sylvia flees the shambles of her marriage by accepting a visiting professorship at Linden, an elite college in Pierre, New York. A few counties north, high school senior Meg Croyden has narrowly survived a self-destructive, rebellious youth and is headed to Linden on a full scholarship. In the town of Pierre, lifelong resident...

"From within the womb, Sal and Brian's unborn child relates his experiences: multiple threats to his existence, including the apparent end of his parents' marriage and his father's desire to have him aborted."--Amazon.

"Situada en la primera mitad del siglo xx, Príncipes de Maine,reyes de Nueva Inglaterra cuenta la historia del director de un orfanato, el doctor Wilbur Larch - santo varón y obstetra, adicto al éter y practicante de abortos-, y la de su huérfano favorito, Homer Wells, al que nadie adopta. El doctor Larch siente la obligación moral de liberar a las madres sin recursos de un embarazo no deseado, antes que admitir en su asilo a sus higjos abandonados."...