Red Clocks

　　當授予所有胚胎生命、自由與財產權的人格修正案通過，墮胎和體外受精在美國再次被宣告為違法行為，五個女人的人生因而交會。

　　單身高中老師Ro，正著手撰寫19世紀一個默默無名的極地女探險家Eivør Minervudottir的傳記，同時，她渴望在單親生育被禁止前，生下一個自己的孩子；Susan是Ro同事的妻子，擁有兩個孩子，被困在搖搖欲墜的婚姻中，身心俱疲；Mattie是Ro最優秀的學生之一，她的好友因為意圖在家私自墮胎而被關進少年監獄，而她現在發現自己也懷孕了，絕望的她感覺自己無處可逃；Gin則是一名自然療法治療師，私下提供墮胎服務，直到她因為醫療失當行為被逮捕，而庭審過程如同一場現代版的女巫審判。這些女人展開了一連串對父權建構的體制的大膽挑戰，她們的命運在此匯集──並與Eivør的人生互為映照。

　　本書情節引人入勝，懸疑感緊緊牽引著讀者，猶如Naomi Alderman的《The Power》的氣勢結合《使女的故事》一針見血的預言，Zumas在這部來勢洶洶的新作中，呈現了當代社會中，被婚姻、事業、母親等角色形塑、改變的女性面貌，並令人戰慄地揭示了在不久之後的未來，社會可能面臨的艱難課題。(文/博客來編譯)

　　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.

　　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. 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 homeopath, 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. With the verve of Naomi Alderman’s THE POWER and the prescient brilliance of THE HANDMAID’S TALE, Leni Zumas’ incredible new novel is fierce, fearless and frighteningly plausible.