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A review by jenpaul13
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
3.0
Women are powerful people, but history has not treated them kindly. A new amendment places strict regulations on women's reproduction in Red Clocks by Leni Zumas.
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With the passing of the Personhood Amendment in the United States, abortions are illegal, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and embryos are granted the same rights as people. These restrictions force women to seek alternatives to their unwanted pregnancies or their attempts to get pregnant. For five women in a small town in Oregon, this amendment impacts their lives to varying degrees, and although each of the women have a different struggle with the amendment they are nevertheless connected in their actions in navigating womanhood in a redefined structure.
Addressing a timely topic of women and their reproductive rights, this narrative's intriguing, thought-provoking, and horrifying premise demonstrates the different identities and freedoms that woman have or could have. The pacing of the novel was a bit choppy with its brief chapters and shifting from character to character, keeping readers at a remove from them instead of closely delving into their lives and struggles to really show who they are. Though the stories of each of the women are drawn together by the end of the novel, their relationships with one another don't seem particularly developed, leaving them feeling like figures instead of people.
To read this, and other book reviews, visit my website: http://makinggoodstories.wordpress.com/.
With the passing of the Personhood Amendment in the United States, abortions are illegal, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and embryos are granted the same rights as people. These restrictions force women to seek alternatives to their unwanted pregnancies or their attempts to get pregnant. For five women in a small town in Oregon, this amendment impacts their lives to varying degrees, and although each of the women have a different struggle with the amendment they are nevertheless connected in their actions in navigating womanhood in a redefined structure.
Addressing a timely topic of women and their reproductive rights, this narrative's intriguing, thought-provoking, and horrifying premise demonstrates the different identities and freedoms that woman have or could have. The pacing of the novel was a bit choppy with its brief chapters and shifting from character to character, keeping readers at a remove from them instead of closely delving into their lives and struggles to really show who they are. Though the stories of each of the women are drawn together by the end of the novel, their relationships with one another don't seem particularly developed, leaving them feeling like figures instead of people.