![]() ![]() Their four lives converge and intertwine in strange ways, especially when a heated trial breaks out in their town, forcing them all to grapple with this new world order. And finally, Gin is a young "witch" who offers herbal cures to women in need of gynecological help, including abortions. Susan is a mother of two children who fantasizes about leaving her husband. There’s Mattie, an adopted teenager who has accidentally become pregnant and is desperate for an abortion. There’s Ro, an unmarried writer and teacher desperate to have children but who cannot get pregnant. ![]() The story is set in a small town in Oregon, where four women cope with the weight of these laws and the equally-crushing magnitude of societal expectations. In Lena Zumas’s near-future America, The Personhood Amendment has made both abortion and in-vitro fertilization illegal, and the Every Child Needs Two Act is about to make it impossible for unmarried people to adopt children. Red Clocks is no romance or "beach read." Instead, it is a frightening dystopian novel about what happens when politicians successfully manage to push back on women’s reproductive rights little by little, until none are left at all. ![]() ![]() Don’t let the pink and red cover fool you. ![]()
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