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.
This is a story of resilience, transformation, and hope in tumultuous -- even frightening -- times..
In the vein of Margaret Atwood and Eileen Myles, Leni Zumas fearlessly explores the contours of female experience, evoking The Handmaid\'s Tale for a new millennium.
Red Clocks is at once a riveting drama, whose mysteries unfold with magnetic energy, and a shattering novel of ideas.
And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling herbalist, or mender, who brings all their fates together when she\'s arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.
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.
What is a woman for? In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom.
One question.
Five women.
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
