Red clocks : a novel / Leni Zumas.

  • Zumas, Leni, 1972-
Date:
2018
  • Books

About this work

Description

Five women, including a high school teacher, a pregnant teenager, and a forest-dwelling homeopath, struggle with changes in a near-future America where abortion and assisted fertility have been outlawed and where the homeopath is targeted by a modern-day witch hunt. Abortion is illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling herbalist, or mender, who brings all their fates together when she's arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.

Publication/Creation

London, England : The Borough Press, 2018.

Physical description

354 pages ; 24 cm

Type/Technique

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    UV.AI
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ISBN

  • 9780008209841
  • 0008209847
  • 9780008209827 (hardback)
  • 0008209820 (hardback)