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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
This book is a bit hard to get into, and a little bit confusing at first (the author calls her main characters "The Wife", "The Biographer", "The Daughter" and "The Mender", and it is difficult to figure out who is who when real names are used), but ultimately fascinating, absorbing and scary. Abortion is once again illegal in America, there is a "pink wall" between the US and Canada (to prevent out of the country abortions) in-vitro fertilization is banned, adoption is about to be legal ONLY for 2 parent (male and female) families, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights to every fetus. The book brings together the four above named women in an Oregon town (plus snippets of the biography of Eivor, an explorer of the Arctic Ice from the 1800's) and culminates in a modern witch hunt.