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hawkia75 's review for:
Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
Woo boy, I have a lot to say about abortion, and the kind of hardships women will face if it's outlawed. But I'm not sure how many people would want to read my screed when they can read this book instead. Zumas follows four women in Newell, Oregon, in varied circumstances. Each is wrestling with decisions about having children, wanting children, and being pregnant while desperately wanting not to be pregnant. Zumas shows and doesn't tell, how the personal is political, with a poet's ear for language. She writes each character's section slightly differently, using different words, and even different cadences. At first, the characters seem worlds apart, and anonymous as each character's section is identified by her role: the biographer, the daughter, the wife, the mender. As we learn their names, and how they connect to each other, the world of the book becomes more knowable, smaller, but also richer for being interwoven. If the Handmaid's Tale is too removed from our reality to really alarm people, Red Clocks is about ten minutes away, and we should be frightened.