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Book ID/图书代码： 09580014B71068
English Summary/英文概要： Jane and her sister Meg are left a letter from their dead mother, telling them about the son she had at 16 and gave up for adoption.
Her wish is they should find him.
This is the journey of two middle-aged sisters who travel through the USA to meet their ‘new’ half brother. Knowing him to be an active Pro Lifer, they must prepare for a charged meeting and recognise that, although they share a blood bond, their politics will create an immediate conflict.
Their road trip, which involves various detours, including a visit to the Amish region, becomes more than geographical. It is a time to reflect on their own assumptions and on the choices they have made, and the choices every woman makes, around pregnancy. Nicola Streeten brings alive the frictions inherent in law, religion and personal feelings around pregnancy with historical and factual details around abortion, and wryly examines sibling relationships and what determines ‘family’.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 珍妮和妹妹梅格在母亲的遗书中发现了一个今天的秘密——母亲在16岁的时候曾生下过一个儿子，并交给他人领养。
于是这对中年姐妹跨越美国，展开了寻找这位同母异父哥哥的旅途，而后姐妹发现这个哥哥是一位无期徒刑犯人，与之见面必须安排会议。后来珍妮和梅格意识到尽管他们拥有同一位母亲，他们的政治立场却有很大的冲突。
在这段旅程中，姐妹俩也拜访了许多地方，其中包括埃米什人生活的区域，使得她们对埃米什人有了超乎书本的理解。而这也正是时候去思考她们自己曾做的假设和选择，当然，也是每个女人都会面临的选择——怀孕。尼古拉·斯特里登在书中表现出了在现行法律、宗教、个人感受中对怀孕以及历史事件中对堕胎的观念之间固有存在的摩擦，讽刺了所谓的同胞情谊，审视了究竟是什么才是真正的“家庭”。（XAT）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 尼古拉曾是位人类学家，后来成为了一位插画家及漫画学家，并与茱莉亚·戴维斯（《艺术动物》、《一个女人的艺术杂志》作者，2013年2月）共同创立了雷迪斯漫画公司。尼古拉曾获得过苏赛克斯大学的艺术与人类研究协会奖学金。2013年，尼古拉致力于研究上世纪70年代至今的女性漫画，并获得了博士学位。尼古拉依旧从事着商业插画的工作，每个星期五，她都会在博客上更新她的条漫系列。
Nicola is an anthropologist-turned-illustrator and comics scholar, and is co-founder of Laydeez do Comics, “a combination between a book club and a series of TED talks”
(Julie Davis, Art Animal, A Woman’s Art Magazine, Feb 2013). She has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship from Sussex University to begin a research doctorate in 2013, on British women’s comics from 1970-present. Nicola continues to work on commercial illustration commissions. Every Friday, she adds to a regular cartoon strip series #ayearat50 on her blog.
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