Goodreads asked Jennifer Greene:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Jennifer Greene I would love to 'travel' to Williamsburg in early America--to set a book where there was a woman apothecary dealing with the same women's health issues we deal with today.
I love that era. Although so much of our world is hugely different today, when I study history I find the opposite. We're the same. We struggle to find moral values, to do the right thing, to create families and marriages and 'lives' that are enabled to thrive. Men and women still have different medical ideas--different financial values based on gender. From birth control to STD's to abortions to childbirth issues--women then, as now, found ways to better their lives. And as now, they sometimes had to go outside the law (or their religious values) to achieve that goal.

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