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A review by mandapanda13
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
5.0
I picked this book months ago from Book of the Month, I’ve been looking forward to reading it but kept putting off.
I’m really glad I read the book before I bothered to look at the reviews already posted.
The novel interweaves the lives of four women, in a country that no longer allows women to chose abortion, no longer allows for single parent adoptions, and this I found was dreadful, simply because it’s a future that could happen.
The biographer is a history teacher, whom is wonderful and struggles to obtain the one thing she wants most, a child, and with the new legislation coming into effect she’s running out of time.
The mender is the croon of the story; and she is fierce and wise. She was my favorite. She was set in her ways and didn’t care what anyone thought, and was so close to nature that I found myself envious. (Yes I am weird)
The wife is struggling to maintain her failed marriage in attempt to follow the “every child needs two” thought process and secretly binge eats sweets and has a romantic notion of suicide.
The daughter, brilliant, young, and of course naive finds herself in a situation that she feels there is no way out except abortion. She refers to the fetus as a clump, and cannot bare the notion of bringing the live into the world.
The four women interconnect and you see this as the novel unfolds, each have their own secrets, their own struggles and manage to overcome them.
I can’t exactly explain why I feel the way I do about this book, I can say that I loved the complexity of it, I loved that it wasn’t a long drawn out romance, that it was back and forth with each character. I loved how the characters felt real, and though I hoped for a happy ending for all the female characters but I feel that they all became enlightened by the end, and finding inner strength isn’t something everyone can accomplish.
I’m really glad I read the book before I bothered to look at the reviews already posted.
The novel interweaves the lives of four women, in a country that no longer allows women to chose abortion, no longer allows for single parent adoptions, and this I found was dreadful, simply because it’s a future that could happen.
The biographer is a history teacher, whom is wonderful and struggles to obtain the one thing she wants most, a child, and with the new legislation coming into effect she’s running out of time.
The mender is the croon of the story; and she is fierce and wise. She was my favorite. She was set in her ways and didn’t care what anyone thought, and was so close to nature that I found myself envious. (Yes I am weird)
The wife is struggling to maintain her failed marriage in attempt to follow the “every child needs two” thought process and secretly binge eats sweets and has a romantic notion of suicide.
The daughter, brilliant, young, and of course naive finds herself in a situation that she feels there is no way out except abortion. She refers to the fetus as a clump, and cannot bare the notion of bringing the live into the world.
The four women interconnect and you see this as the novel unfolds, each have their own secrets, their own struggles and manage to overcome them.
I can’t exactly explain why I feel the way I do about this book, I can say that I loved the complexity of it, I loved that it wasn’t a long drawn out romance, that it was back and forth with each character. I loved how the characters felt real, and though I hoped for a happy ending for all the female characters but I feel that they all became enlightened by the end, and finding inner strength isn’t something everyone can accomplish.