There's a librarian in perhaps the most creative library in the world, a collective where authors with no readers shelve their books, that is always open and never refuses a submission. The librarian gets his girlfriend, who is perhaps the most beautiful woman in the world, pregnant. They have to leave San Francisco, and the reclusiveness of the library, to seek an illegal abortion in Mexico.

The Abortion is full of passages about Vita's beautiful body, and even more perfect face, that lacks enough subtlety in it's targeted repetitiveness about Vitas abundant, proliferating beauty to make Ayn Rand proud. But that's entirely the point. The introspection into the burden carried by a woman perceived as unbashedly attractive is raw and too uncomfortable. Yup, I kind of loved this book.

"The stewardesses on this flight were fantastically shallow and had been born from half a woman into a world that possessed absolutely no character accept chrome smiles. All of them were, of course, beautiful."