Despite the fact that our celebration plans are limited to laying in our bed and watching TV in the dark while the fireworks go off outside, we at Fierce Reads are so ready for this New Year to arrive. Instead of obsessively daydreaming about our 2021 plans (because HELLO), we thought what better time to look back and reflect on history? This January, we're starting off strong and staying empowered with our book club pick: Girls Like Us by Randi Pink.  Watch the author, Randi Pink, here for a sneak peek into how awesome this book is and what we have planned for the end of the month!  

If history has given us anything, it's a long list of incredible women who are constantly changing the game. Randi is bringing us four more to add to the list—meet Izella, Ola, Missippi, and Sue, four teens who must face impossible odds when met with unplanned pregnancies prior to Roe v. Wade. This book is about challenges, friendship, and most importantly, a woman's right to choose her future. We hope you join us in reading this historical fiction novel all throughout January! Check out our reading schedule below. Follow along with us on @FierceReads on social, as well as with author @randi_pink on Twitter and Instagram,

Mark your calendars with the #ReadFierce January 2021 reading dates:

Week One: January 6th Pages 1- 100 Week Two: January 14th Pages 101-203 Week Three: January 21st Pages 204 - end January 28th Join us and @randi_pink for a LIVE Book Club Discussion.

Girls Like Us by Randi Pink

Girls with few choices have to make tough decisions on their own. Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they’re dealing with unplanned pregnancies. In rural Georgia, Izella is wise beyond her years, but burdened with the responsibility of her older sister, Ola, who has found out she’s pregnant. Their young neighbor, Missippi, is also pregnant, but doesn’t fully understand the extent of her predicament. When her father sends her to Chicago to give birth, she meets the final narrator, Susan, who is white and the daughter of an anti-choice senator. Randi Pink masterfully weaves four lives into a larger story – as timely as ever – about a woman’s right to choose her future. Be sure to check out Randi's other book  Angel of Greenwood, available wherever books are sold on January 12, 2021.