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sarahnolanbrueck 's review for:
Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
This is one of those books that I didn’t enjoy much as a reader, but found interesting as a scholar. Zumas is pretty clearly telling the story of a place by displacing the world of Newville into a near-future dystopia, which is an interesting move. Sure, this book is about the connections between women in a community, but on a much deeper level it’s about the connection of human bodies to the environments they inhabit, which is honestly a much more complex narrative move than I was expecting. Zumas’s book is about reproductive complexities, certainly; but it’s also about the larger cycles that occur around us, and the deeper histories that inhere in our surroundings—and whether we matter within this greater context.