Based on a real government program this is a book that is a
real eye opener as to where our government has been and that there is always a
chance it could come back. This is a
tale that centers around two women one a fifteen-year-old who’s parents took
her to a doctor for an abortion, her mom, whom has major mental issues, thinking
she had been sleeping around but in truth it was her father that got her
pregnant. The other just a woman walking
to work when a sheriff takes her in with no cause and has her tested and she
tested positive presumedly with syphilis, even though she has only kissed a guy. Both women are sent to a state-run industrial
farm colony for women. Where punishments
are doled out freely and severely for any little thing. These women are supposedly test often to make
sure they are cured and given mercury-based drugs that make them so sick they
can hardly move but are expected to work.
Others are sterilized to cure them of ever being pregnant again as they
as presumed women of ill repute.
This is a wonderful book even if it does turn your stomach
at times. The things these ladies went
through are gut wrenching, but the friendships forged will never break. The people running the colony are the only
ones to say when the ladies are truly cured and then can be released. When one lady defies the order to hurt, correct,
another by using the switch on her, you can really see how horrid the place and
people in it are. This is a book that
needs to be read so history never repeats itself, it would make a great woman’s
history book club book. I really do not
know what else to say but it is so good that it will be a go to on my recommended
list.
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