With disarming candour, Judith Grossman reveals what it was like before abortions were available...only yesterday. "Often wickedly funny, unquotably funny...without cant, without dogma, without a grain of self-pity" - Sue Miller, New York Times Book Review "Mothers, grandmothers, buy this one for your daughters" - Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times "Conveys an immense compassion for women who came of age in a certain time and place...as tart and fresh as it is true to life" - Newsday "The book is brilliant" - Boston Globe