mrwilliams 's review for:

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
5.0

I am blown away by this one. It should sit on the shelf after Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale" and Yukanvitch's "The Book of Joan". There is a passage, it appears two or three times, about a plastic bag that beats the shit out of that paper bag scene in "American Beauty." Zumas' novel is brutal, brilliant, brave, and occasionally bonkers. The first great read of the year.