A MOTHER'S PROMISE is the perfect read for our pivotal time. Based on historical fact, and written by a superb storyteller, you cannot help but find the untidy ends of your own family history drawn up into this story, creating a tapestry of women, past, present and future. I clung to every line like it was a precious work by women I love.
Ancestry dot com revealed in my own family history a 'poor house' as residence of my female, immigrant ancestors. When I'd first seen the previously unknown detail, I could only imagine what kind of life they led in such a place in the early 1900s. Ms. K. D. Alden shows us with the most realistic details what life for unattached women was like in the early 1900s. So expert at her craft, I could smell the doctor's books, wished I could brush Ruth Ann's hair and tell her everything was going to be all right, but that would have been a sad, unfulfilled fantasy to a young lady like Ruth Ann Riley. Only modern women can make such assurances, and mean them.
We need to know the story of eugenics in America, we need to understand it from Ms. Alden's perspective. We need to understand, as women, where we've been to know where not to go.
Ultimately, the story is triumphant. Love conquers all, and A Mother's Promise is as strong a book as a mother's bond with her child.
A Mother's Promise is perfect because it's based in a heck of a lot of painful truth, revels in the triumph and is a superbly written by a talented storyteller. This is my first K. D. Alden book, but it won't be my last. Ms. Alden is on auto-buy now.
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A Mother's Promise is Historical Fiction based upon the 1927 Supreme Court decision of Buck v. Bell. In Buck v. Bell the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled.In A Mother's Promise, Ruth Ann Riley lives in an institution after she became pregnant out of wedlock. Her child was put up for an adoption, yet she stayed at the institution because her mother was also institutionalized. When Dr. Price tells Ruth Ann that he is going to do an operation on her so that she cannot have anymore children, she is terrified. Dr. Price proceeds to tell her that she is feebleminded and immoral even when the evidence points to the contrary. Dr. Price then concocts a plan to have Ruth Ann's surgery taken to the local courts and appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court.I found myself rooting for Ruth Ann and her fellow inmates, I mean residents 🙄. A Mother's Promise is a quick read with heavy topics.One of the best things about reading historical fiction is the opportunity to learn. This book sent me down a rabbit hole of researching after finishing.
