Red Clocks - Leni Zumas
Category: Novel
Narrator: Karissa Vacker
Tags: Novel, Sci-Fi, Contemporary, Adults
A Popsugar most anticipated book of fall, A Ploughshares most anticipated book of fall, One of Publishers Weeklys most anticipated titles of fall 2017, Five women. One question. What is a woman for?, 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. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom., Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own while also writing a biography of Eivr, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ros best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling herbalist, or mender, who brings
