The novel shifts to the mender, Gin, who reflects briefly on her falling out with Lola. She is taking fertility medicine in order to conceive a child through intrauterine insemination, but she is a single 42-year-old woman and worries her chances of conception are slim.

It then moves into a section from the perspective of the biographer, Ro.

The novel opens with a page of fragments detailing the birth of polar explorer Eivor Minervudottir in 1941, on the Faroe Islands. The arctic explorer who Ro is writing about is always called by her name, which is Eivor Minervudottir. The other three contemporary characters and their labels are as follows: Susan, who is the wife, Mattie, known as the daughter, and Gin, who is called the mender. Ro is referred to as the biographer in her sections, which are all titled 'The Biographer.' The other narrators only refer to her by her name when discussing her in their own sections. These labels are also the titles of their respective sections. The four contemporary characters all have names, but are referred to by specific labels in their own sections.

The novel jumps back and forth between these five different perspectives, and each section from a contemporary narrator's point of view is sandwiched by excerpts from Ro's biography on the polar explorer. Four of the narrators are living at the same time in the same coastal Oregon town, while the fourth is a nineenth century arctic explorer, and the subject of a biography one of the narrators - Ro - is writing. Red Clocks, by Leni Zumas, is told from the perspectives of five different women. This is a story of resilience, transformation, and hope in tumultuous-even frightening-times.Zumas, Leni. 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. RED CLOCKS is at once a riveting drama, whose mysteries unfold with magnetic energy, and a shattering novel of ideas. 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. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn.

Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of Eivør, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. 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.

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