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A Book of American Martyrs

By: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrated by: Neil Hellegers, Tavia Gilbert, Kristen Potter
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Summary

Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences.

Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead.

The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and the Dunphys, their opposite on all counts.

When the daughters of the two families, Naomi Voorhees and Dawn Dunphy, glimpse each other at the trial of Luther Dunphy, their initial response is mutual hatred. But their lives are tangled together forever by what has happened, and throughout the years to come and the events that follow, neither can quite forget the other.

A heart-rending reckoning with some of the most incendiary issues that divide us in our troubled times - religious extremism; abortion; gun violence; capital punishment - this is a novel Joyce Carol Oates was born to write. To listen to it is to encounter the full spectrum of humanity - its ugliness, misery, beauty and hope.

©2017 Joyce Carol Oates (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Classics Family Life Literary Fiction Medical Women's Fiction Political
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An epic

This book should really be turned into a movie. Initially the male religious extremist take on abortion was a lot but as the book develops into a story of the two womens aftermath of a brutal crime, I really enjoyed it.

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