Red Clocks: A Novel [Book]
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A National Bestseller - A New York Times Editor's Choice - A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year - An Amazon Best Book of the Month - An Indie Next Pick - One of Wall Street Journal's Twelve Books to Read This Winter - An Esquire most anticipated book of 2018An Elle Best Book of ...MoreA National Bestseller - A New York Times Editor's Choice - A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year - An Amazon Best Book of the Month - An Indie Next Pick - One of Wall Street Journal's Twelve Books to Read This Winter - An Esquire most anticipated book of 2018An Elle Best Book of Winter A Popsugar most anticipated book of Fall - A Ploughshares most anticipated book of Fall - A Nylon Best Book of the Month - One of Publishers Weekly's most anticipated titles of Fall 2017Five women. One question. What is a woman for? In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again 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, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. - Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of Eivør, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. 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. - RED CLOCKS is at once a riveting drama, whose mysteries unfold with magnetic energy, and a shattering novel of ideas. In the vein of Margaret Atwood and Eilee... view more