![]() ![]() ![]() As the Mother, Mender, Daughter and Biographer show - in utterly compelling, distinct voices - there's no simple narrative governing the choice to carry, birth, abort, or adopt a child. Instead, Red Clocks provides an exquisite portrait of the internal legislation that governs motherhood - not the laws enacted in Congressional offices, but the unique joys and recriminations that occur inside of every woman who yearns for or experiences pregnancy and motherhood. Red Clocks is a novel about reproductive freedoms, but its primary concern is not politics. The Daughter seeks an abortion, and the Mender surreptitiously cares for the town's women while carrying secrets of her own. The Biographer researches the first female polar explorer and yearns for a child. In their small seaside town, the Mother raises her kids and envies the Biographer's freedom. Red Clocks, Leni Zumas’s fascinating second novel, follows four women, the Mender, the Mother, the Daughter, and the Biographer, as they move through the life stages of pregnancy, motherhood, and infertility. ![]()
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