Mother Confesses Life of Abortion Addiction
Determined to tell her own truth, and destined to be misunderstood, Irene Vilar’s narrative is a heartrending expose on reproductive freedom. With a foreword by Robin Morgan and advance quotes from such writers as Junot Diaz and Bob Shacochis, IMPOSSIBLE MOTHERHOOD: Testimony of an Abortion Addict (Other Press; October 6, 2009) is poised to break barriers and defy stereotypes. As a sixteen year old undergraduate at Syracuse University , Vilar became involved with her fifty year old professor, whom she later married. Their union was one of impossible odds, built on submission and manipulation, and ultimately shattering some eleven years and twelve abortions later. Adding to dysfunction in Vilar’s life are the lingering shadows from her childhood in Puerto Rico : her mother’s suicide, her grandmother—famed incarcerated political activist Lolita Lebron's legacy, a philanderer father, and two heroin-addicted brothers. Vilar’s patterns of addiction, as well, are troubling: as she spiral...