A sixteen-year-old girlΓÇÖs road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability,strengthand above allchoice. From the acclaimed author of A Heart in a Body in the Worldthis is both an achingly tender love story and a boldbadly needed battle cry about bodily autonomy and the experiences that connect us. Ivy canΓÇÖt entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test. She didnΓÇÖt even know it was possible from . . . what happened. But it isand now she isand instead of spending the summer working at the local drugstore and swooning over her boyfriendLorenzosuddenly sheΓÇÖs planning a cross-country road trip to her grandmotherΓÇÖs house on the West Coastwhere she can legally obtain an abortion. Escaping her small Texas town and the judgment of her friends and neighborsIvy hits the road with Lorenzowhodetermined to make the best of their ΓÇ£abortion road trip love storyΓÇ¥ has transformed the journey into a whirlwind tour of the world: all the way from ParisTexasto RomeOregon . . . and every rest-stop diner and corny roadside attraction along the way. And while Ivy canΓÇÖt run from the incessant pressure of othersΓÇÖ opinions about her body or from her own expectations and insecuritiesshe discovers a new world of healing and hope. As the women she encounters share their storiesshe chips away at the stigmasilenceand shame surrounding reproductive rights while those collective experiences guide her to her own rightful destination.