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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
This will draw inevitable comparisons to The Handmaid's Tale, and while it is equally timely, this novel stands alone on its own literary merit. Yes, we are asked to consider a future in which abortion and in-vitro fertilization are illegal, "witch hunts" are real, and the government is a frightening parallel to our own at the moment -- nothing seems so far-fetched that our current administration couldn't achieve it, and the setting (a coastal town in Oregon) is familiar enough to make this an even more unsettling read for me. But what makes this novel soar is the characterization and the author's language, because if a writer can't tell me a story in beautiful sentences, I'm not as invested in the story. I read this novel in a single weekend, and if I could have, I would have read from the first page to the last without closing the covers. It's lovely, frightening, triumphant, and important.