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LWVPA Book Discussion: Looking for Jane [evening] -- CANCELED

About this event


Join Jackie McGrath

LWVPA Book Club Facilitator

 

for a discussion of


Looking for Jane 


by Heather Marshall

Wednesday, September 13, 7:00 pm, on Zoom


About the book:

2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane.


1971: As a teenager, Dr. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for “fallen” women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoption—a trauma she has never recovered from. Despite harrowing police raids and the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had.

1980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. Grappling with her decision, she locates “Jane” and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the network’s ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her.



LWVPA Book Club meetings are focused and engaging discussions of fiction and nonfiction books about current social and political issues, open to LWVPA members and their guests. Our facilitators select the books and lead the discussion.





Date and Time

Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM Central Time (US & Canada) (UTC-06:00)

Event Contact(s)

Debby Brauer

Jackie McGrath

Category

Book Discussion

Registration Info

Registration is not Required

The League of Women Voters of the Palatine, Barrington, and Schaumburg Areas is a nonpartisan political organization and does not support any political party or candidate.