Lemons In The Garden of Love

In 1977, Cassie Lyman is searching for a topic for her doctoral dissertation in women's history when she uncovers a trove of suffrage cartoons, diaries, and letters left behind by Kate Easton, founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts.

What Cassie doesn't expect is how closely her own life will come to mirror Kate's. As she reads Kate's words, written six decades earlier, Cassie begins to see her own marriage, family, and choices in a new light—and to understand just how hard-won the freedoms she takes for granted really are.

Told in two timelines nearly seventy years apart, Lemons in the Garden of Love traces one family's long, personal relationship with the fight for reproductive freedom in America—a story that has only grown more relevant with time.

Fifty percent of the author's proceeds from this book support Planned Parenthood.