Red Clocks: A Novel

Red Clocks: A Novel

<strong><b><strong><b>A National Bestseller<br />A <i>New York Times</i> Editor's Choice<br />A <i>Time</i> Magazine Best Book of the Year<br />An Amazon Best Book of the Month</b></strong><br />An Indie Next Pick<br />One of <i>Wall Street Journal</i>'s Twelve Books to Read This Winter<br />An <i>Esquire </i>most anticipated book of 2018<br />An <i>Elle</i> Best Book of Winter <br />A <i>Popsugar</i> most anticipated book of Fall<br />A<i> Ploughshares</i> most anticipated book of Fall<br />A <i>Nylon </i>Best Book of the Month<br />One of <i>Publishers Weekly</i>'s most anticipated titles of Fall 2017<br /><br /></b>Five women. One question. What is a woman for?</strong><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><b>Ro</b>, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of <b>Eivør</b>, a little-known 19^th-century female polar explorer. <b>Susan</b> is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. <b>Mattie</b> is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And <b>Gin</b> 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.<br /><br />RED CLOCKS is at once a riveting drama, whose mysteries unfold with magnetic energy, and a shattering novel of ideas. 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. This is a story of resilience, transformation, and hope in tumultuous-even frightening-times.