num_pages: 368
description: Five 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 Eivr 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 homeopath or mender who brings all their fates together when she's arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.
language: English
title: Red Clocks
publisher: Little, Brown and Company