RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewThe book...is startling, disturbing and terrifically readable ... The trial transcripts supply fine courtroom drama, but the story doesn’t end there ... The Trials of Nina McCall is a consistently surprising page-turner, and at times I found myself wishing Stern had lingered over particular details ... Even so, his book is a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically congealed in state control over women’s bodies and behavior—at times with the complicity of medical authorities.
