This book was very well written and I really enjoyed the voice the writer brought to Calla, though I didn’t like Calla as a protagonist. I felt like the book leaned so heavily on animal instinct to explain her motives which I believe was intentional but it left me feeling like I was reading about a speaking animal at times. I would have like to have more depth into why she was making the choices she was making. 

I see why this book is so polarizing because it feels like it could easily be a beloved book of the right-wing misogynistic, tradwife, anti-abortion crowd but I think the book was much more about choice at its core, than motherhood. But I will say the passages about pregnancy, birth, and a desire for motherhood seemed to have been the most thought out and the portions of the story about choice and lack of autonomy felt almost like a device or lens to just look at motherhood. 

I’m still trying to navigate my thoughts on this one and get to the root of what exactly made me so uncomfortable about this book. But I would like to study this book in an 11th grade English class or something lol