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'Covered Buttons' examines history of birth control in Arkansas

A package of Aviane birth control pills. The federal program known as Title X provides birth control, tests for sexually transmitted infections, and offers other reproductive health care for low-income patients.
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A package of Aviane birth control pills.

A new novel looks at the history of birth control in the U.S., through the lens of a fictional 17-year-old girl growing up in 1930s Arkansas.

“Covered Buttons” is the debut novel from Stephanie Saunders, a North Arkansas native and professor of Spanish at Lyon College in Batesville.

Little Rock Public Radio’s Daniel Breen caught up with Saunders ahead of her author talk Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. at Paper Hearts Bookstore in Little Rock’s Pettaway neighborhood.

Daniel Breen is News Director of Little Rock Public Radio.