Terrible Virtue: A Novel

Margaret Sanger fought for social justice eventually channeling her energy to one singular cause: legalizing contraception. It was a battle that would pit her against patriarchal lawmakers, send her to prison, and ultimately change the lives of women around the world. From opening the first illegal birth control clinic in America in 1916 through the founding of Planned Parenthood to the arrival of the pill in the 1960s, Margaret Sanger sacrificed much for sexual equality and freedom. This richly imagined portrait of a larger-than-life woman is at once sympathetic to her suffering and unsparing of her faults. Deeply insightful, Terrible Virtue is Margaret Sanger's story as she herself might have told it.