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A review by eviesellers
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
3.0
i had some issues with this book initially but, as the women's individual stories intertwined, it got much more interesting and easy to follow.
this is a VERY realistic dystopia, and in that respect it's definitely unnerving. however, the nature of a future america in which right wing politicians fully prohibit abortion was examined through a somewhat surface level lens without much consideration for how different the reality of this would look for women of color, trans women, lgbtq women, lower class women, disabled women, etc. it would be difficult to acknowledge all of these ideas in one novel and i fully acknowledge that this is a fiction book rather than a scholarly work of intersectional sociopolitical policy analysis, but it would have been nice to see some of these ideas developed further.
this is a VERY realistic dystopia, and in that respect it's definitely unnerving. however, the nature of a future america in which right wing politicians fully prohibit abortion was examined through a somewhat surface level lens without much consideration for how different the reality of this would look for women of color, trans women, lgbtq women, lower class women, disabled women, etc. it would be difficult to acknowledge all of these ideas in one novel and i fully acknowledge that this is a fiction book rather than a scholarly work of intersectional sociopolitical policy analysis, but it would have been nice to see some of these ideas developed further.