The Family Roe: An American Story -- Joshua Prager, Paperback Nathan Chen including the bestsellers The End

including the bestsellers The End of Nature

"--Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

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Track: 3 - Occupied

Size explains the regularities--and peculiarities--of the key processes shaping life (from microbes to whales)

The Family Roe: An American Story -- Joshua Prager, Paperback Nathan Chen including the bestsellers The EndDespite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947 2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers a previously unseen trove and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that