Red clocks
Zumas, Leni, 1972-2019
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In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilisation 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. Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of Eivor, 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.
Main title:
Red clocks / Leni Zumas.
Author:
Zumas, Leni, 1972-, author
Imprint:
London : The Borough Press, 2019.
Collation:
354 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2018.
ISBN:
9780008209865 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6F
LC class:
PS3626.U43
Local class:
FT PbkFICF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2425334