(Ebook) Red Clocks: A Novel by Leni Zumas ISBN 9780316434805, 0316434809

(Ebook) Red Clocks: A Novel by Leni Zumas ISBN 9780316434805, 0316434809

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction & the Neukom Award for Speculative Fiction

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In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, & the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, & property to every embryo. 

Five women. One question. 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, & freedom. 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. 

Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents & one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling herbalist, or "mender," who brings all their fates together when she's arrested & put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt. 

Red Clocks is at once a riveting drama, whose mysteries unfold with magnetic energy, & a shattering novel of ideas. In the vein of Margaret Atwood & Eileen Myles, Leni Zumas fearlessly explores the contours of female experience, evoking The Handmaid's Tale for a new millennium. This is a story of resilience, transformation, & hope in tumultuous -- even frightening -- times.

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Leni Zumas is the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator & the novel The Listeners, which won the Oregon Book Award. Vulture called Red Clocks one of the 100 Most Important Books of the 21st Century So Far. Her fourth book, WOLF BELLS, is forthcoming from Algonquin. She is an associate professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Portland State University.