Yes! I have been waiting to read this book. Our May book for our Book or the Month Buddy Read RED CLOCKS BY LENI ZUMAS. I have read our first section of required reading for discussion: pages 1-93. I really am enjoying it. So far the book reminds me of another book I read called The Mammy and also The Handmaid’s Tale.
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 herbalist, or “mender,” who brings all their fates together when she’s arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.
I can not wait to start discussing this book on Sunday.
Although this book is very scary to read in 2018, as there are people who are in power who would like an outright ban on abortion and total power over women’s bodies. I am anxious to see where the story line takes us.
Reading on…..
Peace.
