Set in the 1960s before Roe, a poignant and powerful novel in the vein
of Lessons in Chemistry and Big Little Lies, about the friendship
between a group of suburban housewives who help one another navigate
through their personal challenges, marriages, and their
pregnancies—both wanted and unwanted.
In 1965 America, women can’t have their own bank accounts, credit
cards, or sign their own leases; divorce is scandalous and difficult;
and abortion is illegal.
Every week, a group of suburban housewives meet for their Tuesday
canasta game. As cards are drawn and discarded, the women share advice
and confidences. When prim and proper Lily Berg, a doctor’s wife,
discovers she’s pregnant with their second child, she follows her
friend Becca’s suggestion and takes in Betsy, a pregnant teen from the
local home for unwed mothers. Betsy, who’s never met anyone Jewish
before, is to live with the Bergs for six months, help with babysitting
and housekeeping, have her own baby, and agree never to contact the
family again.
But things quickly get complicated. Lily, who’s opened her home to the
teenager, never planned on opening her heart, yet that’s exactly what
happens. Meanwhile, Becca is pregnant with her fourth, and comes up
with a scheme to get a legal, therapeutic abortion, and Lily’s sister,
Rose, discovers the man she married isn’t who he purported to be, and
turns to Lily and her husband for help.
Moving and atmospheric, full of history and heart, In the Family Way is
a timely novel that captures the experiences of women on the cusp of
liberation as they struggle with their own complex feelings about being
wives, mothers, and women with their own dreams and ambitions.
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