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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
I picked this book blindly from the library on a bookshelf feature where they just showed you the first sentence of the book. This one reads, “In a room for women whose bodies are broken, the biographer waits her turn.” It immediately hooked me, and turned out to be “Red Clocks” by Leni Zumas.
The premise is that abortion is illegal, in vitro fertilization has been banned, and there is a “personhood amendment” that grants rights to embryos. It follows the story of five women and how being a woman/being a life-bearing creature affects your life’s trajectory. This was book 65/100 toward my reading challenge, and I highly recommend it.
The premise is that abortion is illegal, in vitro fertilization has been banned, and there is a “personhood amendment” that grants rights to embryos. It follows the story of five women and how being a woman/being a life-bearing creature affects your life’s trajectory. This was book 65/100 toward my reading challenge, and I highly recommend it.