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In Girls Like Us, Randi Pink masterfully weaves four lives into a larger story-as timely as ever-about a woman's right to choose her future.Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they're dealing with unplanned pregnancies.In rural Georgia, Izella is wise beyond her years, but burdened with the responsibility of her older sister, Ola, who has found out she's pregnant. Their young neighbor, Missippi, is also pregnant, but doesn't fully understand the extent of her predicament. When her father sends her to Chicago to give birth, she meets the final narrator, Susan, who is white and the daughter of an anti-choice senator.
About the Author
A native and resident of Birmingham, AL, Randi Pink leverages her unique experience with her southern roots when she writes. Randi is a mother, a wife, a writer, an advocate, a fighter, a friend, and so much more. Through a platform of encouragement, advice, and love, Randi loves connecting with the community around her and her loyal community of readers.Randi Pink is a proud student of University of Alabama at Birmingham's creative writing program. In 2013, Randi gained her inspiration for her first novel when working on an assignment for a Children's Literature course. Although it was originally titled "TOYA", Randi's first novel "Into White" was published in 2016 and can be found on the shelves of Barnes and Noble and Amazon. After publishing her first novel, Randi got right to work on her second novel, "Girls Like Us". Inspired by the passing of shocking policies for abortion and other threats to women's rights in her home state as well as her nation, Randi decided it was time to humanize the faces behind abortion. "Girls Like Us" will hit the shelves in October 2019.Randi continues to write every day, and can be found promoting her next book, in her garden, and soaking up family time with her favorite people.
