In a reimagined America where abortion is illegal, IVF is banned, and embryos have legal rights, five women wrestle with what it means to have—or be—a body.
Ro, a single teacher, longs for a child and a legacy. Mattie, her teenage student, is pregnant and out of options. Susan is unraveling inside her suburban marriage. Gin, a reclusive healer, is hunted like a witch. And at the center: a forgotten female explorer whose story Ro is desperate to tell.
As their lives collide in a small Oregon town, Red Clocks asks a brutal, urgent question: What is a woman for?
Ferocious, lyrical, and unflinchingly honest, Leni Zumas’s dystopian novel is a modern-day Handmaid’s Tale—a searing portrait of resistance, identity, and hope when the law no longer recognizes your life.
