State champ a novel

"A high-school state champion runner turned college dropout, Angela is working as a receptionist at an abortion clinic when a 'heartbeat law' criminalizes most abortions statewide. In the ensuing upheaval, her boss is arrested for providing illegal procedures and the clinic is shut down. Angela has...

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Main Author: Plum, Hilary, 1981- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.
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Summary:"A high-school state champion runner turned college dropout, Angela is working as a receptionist at an abortion clinic when a 'heartbeat law' criminalizes most abortions statewide. In the ensuing upheaval, her boss is arrested for providing illegal procedures and the clinic is shut down. Angela has never been either an activist or a model employee. But she gets why her boss didn't follow the rules. She decides to go on a hunger strike in the boarded-up clinic, to protest her boss's arrest and everything that's been lost. She'll draw on her skillset: the masochistic discipline of a runner, a history of self-destructive behavior, and a willingness to sleep on exam room tables (whose hygienic paper she uses as her diary). Angela's protest is solitary, enraged, and a little messy, but it mobilizes a group of people around her-an ex who's a local journalist looking for a good story, the everyday people the clinic once served, and most especially a formidable anti-abortion activist named Janine."--
Physical Description:216 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781639735433
1639735437
Author Notes:Hilary Plum is the author of five books, including the poetry collection Excisions , the essay collection Hole Studies , and the Fence Modern Prize in Prose-winning novel Strawberry Fields . She teaches at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program, and she serves as associate director of the CSU Poetry Center. Her work has appeared in Granta , Astra , The Rupture , Los Angeles Review of Books , Cleveland Review of Books , and elsewhere. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.