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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
Red Clocks is a masterful, speculative narrative about a world in which abortion is made illegal. Although much less dystopian than I’d anticipated, I found this novel highly disturbing- perhaps more so, because I had to work to find the minute differences between this world, and my own.
In her expertly crafted prose, Zumas is skilled in her drawing of characters. The slow and measured way in which each of the 5 central characters are revealed to us is effective. Each moves with fluidity from alien to recognisable- by then end we can see elements of ourselves in each of them.
This novel really shines as a thematic discussion of womanhood. As the cover of my edition states, Zumas asks the question “what is a woman for?” For me, this novel was really about women, and their relationships with their bodies, and their selves, and the people with whom we form relationships. It’s about how these relationships change when the right to choose is stripped away. These are challenging questions to consider- especially when this reality doesn’t seem so impossible at all.
In her expertly crafted prose, Zumas is skilled in her drawing of characters. The slow and measured way in which each of the 5 central characters are revealed to us is effective. Each moves with fluidity from alien to recognisable- by then end we can see elements of ourselves in each of them.
This novel really shines as a thematic discussion of womanhood. As the cover of my edition states, Zumas asks the question “what is a woman for?” For me, this novel was really about women, and their relationships with their bodies, and their selves, and the people with whom we form relationships. It’s about how these relationships change when the right to choose is stripped away. These are challenging questions to consider- especially when this reality doesn’t seem so impossible at all.