Red

This lovely YA novel takes two topics the evangelical christian church is currently on the very wrong side of - sexual abuse and reproductive rights- and weaves them into a story about courage and heartbreak and forgiveness. It's a book that should be on youth library shelves, and that I'm sure will be banned as soon as Republicans find out about it. 

I could imagine exactly this scenario from my own upbringing - and the reactions would have been largely the same. The author's note at the end, tying her narrative together with The Scarlet Letter, sheds light on how some things never seem to change - and yet her book manages to bring hope. Very well done - will happily read more by this author.