Counting backwards
Friedland, Jacqueline2025
Book
New York, 2022. Jessa Gidney is trying to have it all -- a high-powered legal career, a meaningful marriage, and hopefully, one day, a child. But when her professional ambitions come up short and Jessa finds herself at a turning point, she leans into her family's history of activism by taking on pro bono work at a nearby ICE detention center. There she meets Isobel Perez -- a young mother fighting to stay with her daughter -- but as she gets to know Isobel, an unsettling revelation about Isobel's health leads Jessa to uncover a horrifying pattern of medical malpractice within the detention facility. One that shockingly has ties to her own family. Virginia, 1927. Carrie Buck is an ordinary young woman in the center of an extraordinary legal battle at the forefront of the American eugenics conversation. As Jessa works to assemble a case against the prison and the crimes she believes are being committed there, she discovers the landmark Supreme Court case involving Carrie Buck. Her connection to the case, however, is deeper and much more personal than she ever knew -- sending her down new paths that will leave her forever changed and determined to fight for these women, no matter the cost.
Main title:
Counting backwards / Jacqueline Friedland.
Author:
Friedland, Jacqueline, author
Work:
Imprint:
[Nashville, Tenn.] : Harper Muse, [2025].©2025.
Collation:
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes discussion questions.
ISBN:
9781400347308 (paperback)9781400347346 (library binding)97814003473229781400347315 (ebook)
Dewey class:
813.6F
Language:
English
Subject:
Women lawyers -- FictionLegal assistance to the poor -- FictionNoncitizen detention centers -- FictionMothers and daughters -- FictionMedical personnel -- Malpractice -- FictionFamily secrets -- FictionNew York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- FictionVirginia -- History -- 20th century -- FictionLegal fiction (Literature)Social problem fictionHistorical fiction
BRN:
2690060