THE FOURTH CHILD (Harper, March 9, 2021) is the sophomore novel by New Yorker editor Jessica Winter, following her first book Break in Case of Emergency, which The Guardian called
“an extraordinary debut.” At its heart, the book is a love story between a mother and her two extremely different daughters—one biological, one adopted—told from each of their perspectives. Largely set in the early nineteen-nineties in western New York State, at a moment when the “Spring of Life” abortion protests and counter-protests were consuming areas of the region, THE FOURTH CHILD grapples with themes that are central to American politics and culture today: bodily autonomy, reproductive rights, consent, sexuality, motherhood, gender, power, and religion.

 

Chat with the author, Jessica Winter about her newest book during this special BOOK LAUNCH event.