Tips for Tuesday - Books: Looking for Jane & Movie: Baby Ruby

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Books: Looking for Jane

Today we are recommending Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall. This is an extremely powerful novel that couldn't be more timely. It revolves around the issue of abortion. In the 1970s, Evelyn Taylor is unwillingly sent to an abusive home for unwed mothers and forced to give up her child. In the 1980s, in the midst of finding out life-changing news about her family, Nancy Taylor finds herself unexpectedly pregnant so she searches out the mysterious Jane network to help her and finds herself more involved than she expected to be.  In the 2010s, Angela discovers a misdirected letter containing some earth-shattering news for someone, and she is determined to reunite the letter with its rightful owner. The way these three stories come together makes for a quite affecting deeply gripping novel. 

No matter which side of the abortion debate you are on, in some ways this book will stir your wrath. You are more likely to like to enjoy, it, however. if you believe in a woman's right to choose. 

Although the book takes place in Canada, it is relatable no matter where you are from. Ultimately, it provides a sense of hope that things can always change and get better. It may be hard to believe right now, but we can only live and hope and work toward that better world we want to see where all human rights are respected in every way.

Movie: Baby Ruby

Today we are recommending Baby Ruby. Jo, a successful blogger, and her husband are joyously awaiting the birth of their first child. However, when the baby is born, Jo descends into a deep psychosis where she fluctuates between being convinced that anyone and everyone even the baby is out to get her or being convinced that anyone and everyone is out to get her child.  This movie is a deeply moving psychological drama, but it is also part horror movie since it takes place through Jo's eyes and therefore, we see what she thinks she is seeing. Accordingly, it may be too much for some people who are sensitive to blood and gore and/or the idea of a baby being harmed. Primarily, however, its stark portrait of a young mother in the throes of extreme post-partum distress reminds us of the need for prenatal care not just for the baby but for the mother. 

Baby Ruby is available to watch now in theaters and On Demand.

And that's our view. Tune in tomorrow for Tips for Tuesday.

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Baby Ruby photo provided by the production