![]() I especially loved the inclusion of the Mender as a reach back to the knowledge we used to have about our bodies before that power was given over to men in white coats.īecause the town is small we get to see the characters bounce off of each other in ways that feel real and not forced. ![]() All of this rubs up against a world where women have lost the power to make decisions about their own bodies. And a wide range of women’s experiences with motherhood are illustrated in the text-from infertility to motherhood to unwanted pregnancy. There’s even a female polar explorer, a woman whose life the Biographer is researching and whose interludes beautifully shape the rest of the text. There’s a Biographer and a Daughter, a Wife and a Mender. Zumas explores a group of women and girls living life in an Oregon beach town. The best fiction is exploratory rather than didactic, and Red Clocks delivers a rich and thoughtful experience. Red Clocks is not just a timely book, though, it’s also a gorgeous and thoughtful read, one I’m glad to have had by my side as conservatives chop away at women’s rights. The story of a world very much like ours, an America where nothing has changed except that abortion is suddenly, radically illegal turned from dystopia into reality as Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Missouri began passing deeply restrictive anti-abortion laws. ![]() ![]() What a couple of weeks to be reading Red Clocks by Leni Zumas. ![]()
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