Author: | Leni Zumas |
Genre: | Young Adult |
File Name: | red-clocks-by-leni-zumas.epub |
Original Title: | Red Clocks |
Creator: | Leni Zumas |
Language: | en |
Identifier: | URN:ISBN/9780008209858:9780008209858 |
Publisher: | HarperCollinsPublishers |
Date: | 1509469200 |
File Size: | 455699.456 |
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 Eivør, 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 Ro’s best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling homeopath, or “mender,” who brings all their fates together when she’s arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.