| International Standard Book Number |
9798891645707 (large print)
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| Personal Name |
Friedland, Jacqueline, author.
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| Title Statement |
Counting backwards : a novel / Jacqueline Friedland.
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| Edition Statement |
Center Point Large Print edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
461 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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| General Note |
Includes author's note with historical background information, and discussion questions.
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| General Note |
Regular print version previously published by: Harper Muse.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (page 452).
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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. From a poor family, she was only six years old when she first became a ward of the state. Uneducated and without any support, she spends her youth dreaming about a different future -- one separate from her exploitative foster family -- unknowing of the ripples her small, country life will have on an entire nation. 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."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Large type books.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women lawyers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Involuntary sterilization Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Reproductive rights Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women noncitizens Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Noncitizen detention centers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Virginia Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New York (State) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Legal fiction (Literature)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Social problem fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Large print books.
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