This was the worst book I’d read in a while. It’s clearly intended to pander to mothers of young children, but at the same time, I think it would be an unbearably stressful read for that target audience. Most of the book is — and this is not a spoiler — focused on the minute-by-minute torture a woman suffers during the time in which she is forcibly separated from her baby. This is also what makes it an incredibly tedious read. I was hoping it might be redeemed at the end, but nope! It’s also much too long and repetitive. It might have made an okay New Yorker fiction piece, but the author’s ideas are not enough to fill a novel.