Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of Eivv?r, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo.įive women. Catherine Bock, Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN A must read for anyone who loved A Handmaid’s Tale or Burial Rites or who just wants to read an amazing book.”

This goes beyond the politics of what women are ‘allowed’ to do with their bodies: it is about what we as women decide to do and the options we give ourselves. “This novel surpassed my wildest expectations in the questions raised for the women Zumas so expertly brings to life. Hanna Foster, Book People Bookstore, Austin, TX Winter 2018 Reading Group Indie Next List I suspect this will be one of the best books published in 2018.” These characters felt real and this world felt possible. Zumas beautifully weaves these stories together and gives each individual a strong and unique voice, while also maintaining suspended disbelief. With beautiful prose, Leni Zumas tells the story of a young girl seeking an abortion in a world where abortion is illegal and dangerous a woman on the quest to have children when in-vitro fertilization is illegal and folks aren't allowed to adopt without a partner a woman in a dead-end marriage desperate to escape from her husband and children and a woman considered a witch by most who provides homeopathic reproductive healthcare, including illegal abortions. “I never understood what it meant for someone's writing to be 'lyrical' until I picked up Red Clocks.

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