If you like your stories the way too many of us now do - pat, with the narrative reverse-engineered to validate your priors - this book is not for you. In the journalist Joshua Prager’s ardently reported and painfully timely epic, “The Family Roe,” Jane Roe is both heroine and villain - and a paragon of human complexity. She told the world haunting stories about a life of rapes and gunfire and abuse, but she later revealed that she had made much of it up. She called the abortions she helped undam a “holocaust,” but she once texted her daughter Melissa, “I should had abort you.” She worked in an abortion clinic, but she also worked for the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. Jane Roe is why Americans gained a right to abortion, but she never had one. THE FAMILY ROE An American Story By Joshua Prager
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