EPISODE · Jan 16, 2018 · 3 MIN
Red Clocks: A Novel by Leni Zumas
from Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host Brook Bednar
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Clocks: A Novel Author: Leni Zumas Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 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. Five women. One question. What is a woman for? 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 Eivv?r, 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 Eileen Myles, Leni Zumas fearlessly explores the contours of female experience, evoking The Handmaid's Tale for a new millennium. This is a story of resilience, transformation, and hope in tumultuous -- even frightening -- times.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Clocks: A Novel Author: Leni Zumas Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 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. Five women. One question. What is a woman for? 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 Eivv?r, 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 Eileen Myles, Leni Zumas fearlessly explores the contours of female experience, evoking The Handmaid's Tale for a new millennium. This is a story of resilience, transformation, and hope in tumultuous -- even frightening -- times.
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