RATING: GOOD
SPOILERS!!!
Civil gets the lawyer, Lou Feldman, to sue the clinic, but the case grows in importance when Senator Kennedy takes insteres in it. They learn that more girls have been sterilized against their wishes. So Feldman takes the state to court. Journalists swarm the town, and the family feel overwhelmed.
When the trial starts, Lou is not certain they will win because the judge sympathises with racists. Thankfully, Lou wins. Their joy is dampened when Erica is nowhere to be found. For four days they search high and low, and Erica finally appears safe and sound in the shack where they used to live before. The girl says that she wants to leave and hates to be the centre of attention.
When a week or so later everybody gets together to celebrate, Mrs Williams announces that they are leaving. They will move with their cousin Nellie. Civil is very upset as she has grown very fond of the girls and also the father. Mrs Williams reasons with her, saying that Civil has done a lot for them, but she needs a clean break and think about what she will do with her life. After they leave, Civil starts to work for her father in his office, and we imagine that this is the start of her interest in becoming a doctor.
In 2016 Civil goes to visit the two sister after more than thirty years. Erica and India welcome her warmly. Civil explains that she has a daughter she adopted when she was 48. Mace, the girl's father, died years ago from a heart problem, and Mrs Williams married again, and died some years after her son. Now India has cancer, but Civil is told that the doctors are optimistic.
I liked the book, but I found it too long. There were parts that did not add much to the story.
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