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A Popsugar most anticipated book of Fall A Ploughshares most anticipated book of Fall One of Publishers Weekly's most anticipated titles of Fall 2017 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 Eivor, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage.
About the Author
Leni Zumas grew up in Washington, DC, and now lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches creative writing at Portland State University. Her obsessions include maps, ships, drums, and all forms of the atypical. Her new novel, RED CLOCKS, comes out in January from Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown.
