Julia Franks
Author of Over the Plain Houses
Works by Julia Franks
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1964
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Country (for map)
- USA
- Places of residence
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Members
Reviews
Lists
Awards
Statistics
- Works
- 2
- Members
- 104
- Popularity
- #184,481
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 6
- ISBNs
- 5
The Say So looks at who gets to make decisions about pregnant women's lives and how those options change over time. This is a well-researched novel, and one that looks carefully at how unmarried women and girls who became pregnant were treated by the law, by society and by the very groups that formed to help them. While the earlier timeline was the more compelling story, the one set in 1984 was a reminder that even then those who became pregnant were still not given full agency over their own bodies and decisions, often for well-meaning but misguided reasons. I did wonder how a further timeline would look, being written about Luce's granddaughter today might look.
Franks has written another novel, Over the Plain Houses, also concerned with how women's lives looked in the past, and I'm interested to see what project she undertakes next.… (more)