genre: memoir
The shock that Liz feels when she finds out she’s pregnant, at 17, is a mild emotion compared to how she feels when she’s dropped off at a home for pregnant teens and told she has to stay there until she gives birth. She’s been told by her own parents that under no circumstances is she to tell ANYONE about her unfortunate state and to just quietly wait it out in silence. Except, she’s living in a home full of pregnant teenage girls, all of whom have lived a very different life than she has. Staying silent is not a thing. And the education she receives from being around these girls changes Liz in ways she couldn’t even have anticipated.
I liked this - it’s very readable and Liz is a sympathetic narrator. She’s honest about mistakes and about the assumptions she had unknowingly made and I appreciated that in this memoir. I had anticipated reading more About AFTER the pregnancy was over, about how the rest of her life was affected by this secret she kept, but really the book is about her time being pregnant in this secluded, almost incarceration-type environment. Still an interesting enough read.
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