![]() ![]() One of Ro’s students, an adopted girl of fifteen called Mattie, falls pregnant and seeks out an illegal termination. Meanwhile, her friend Susan is trapped in patriarchal utopian hell as a dysfunctional housewife and mother of two children who is yearning to escape the monotony of her existence and the restrictions of the patriarchal nuclear family unit. Time is running out for Roberta, a history teacher, who is desperate for a child but has no partner and therefore must achieve pregnancy before new laws prevent her from undergoing treatment to become pregnant through a sperm donor. In Zumas’s not-too-distant future, abortion is illegal and new laws to ban single parenting (even through artificial insemination and adoption) are pending. ![]() It’s not too far a leap to make, as is often the case in female-centric dystopian narratives. ![]() Set in a secluded Oregan fishing town, Leni Zumas’s second novel, Red Clocks, explores a world where women have lost the right to their own bodies and reproductive autonomy. ![]()
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