Lemons In The Garden of Love: A Novel by Ames Sheldon

On her way to her sister’s shotgun wedding in Massachusetts, Cassie Lyman, a graduate student in women’s history in 1977, finds a trove of cartoons, diaries, and letters belonging to Kate Easton, the founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts. Cassie soon discovers that she and Kate are closely related, though she’d never heard of Kate before. Then their lives start to mirror each other. This is an award-winning historical novel that extolls reproductive freedom.