Blog tour: Plan A by Deb Caletti

A sixteen-year-old girl’s road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice. From the acclaimed author of A Heart in a Body in the World , this is both an achingly tender love story and a bold, badly needed battle cry about bodily autonomy and the experiences that connect us.

Ivy can’t entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test. She didn’t even know it was possible from . . . what happened. But it is, and now she is, and instead of spending the summer working at the local drugstore and swooning over her boyfriend, Lorenzo, suddenly she’s planning a cross-country road trip to her grandmother’s house on the West Coast, where she can legally obtain an abortion.

Escaping her small Texas town and the judgment of her friends and neighbors, Ivy hits the road with Lorenzo, who, determined to make the best of their “abortion road trip love story,” has transformed the journey into a whirlwind tour of the all the way from Paris, Texas, to Rome, Oregon . . . and every rest-stop diner and corny roadside attraction along the way.

And while Ivy can’t run from the incessant pressure of others’ opinions about her body or from her own expectations and insecurities, she discovers a new world of healing and hope. As the women she encounters share their stories, she chips away at the stigma, silence, and shame surrounding reproductive rights while those collective experiences guide her to her own rightful destination.

Content Warning: Abortion, harassment, assault, rape, trauma

---

This is a difficult book to rate. Not because it's not good - it's excellent! - but because the subject matter is so difficult, and knowing that this is real life for so many people right now makes it even harder. I'm fortunate that this situation will never affect me, but it's still pretty hard to read someone going through it.

Parts of this I thought were slow, but the story as a whole is amazing, full of new experiences and details and little moments that really shone. I love Ivy's younger brother and Lorenzo, but the rest of the cast is brilliant as well. I was never bored reading, I always wanted to find out more about what was going on.

We need to flood the shelves with books like this so that people will start discussing and arguing and maybe, just maybe, things will start to get better. I'm looking forward to trying to get this to as many people as possible.

Book Links:

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75649849

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Plan-Deb-Caletti/dp/0593485548/

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/plan-a-deb-caletti/1142907954

IndieBound: https://bookshop.org/p/books/plan-a-deb-caletti/19650185




About the Author:

Deb Caletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of over twenty books for adults and young adults, including Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book. Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. She lives with her family in Seattle.

Author Links:

Website: https://www.debcaletti.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debcaletti/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/135786

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DebCaletti/




Tour Schedule:

Plan A published on the 3rd October, 2023. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.