Red Clocks

Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks is a feminist dystopia set in an America where abortion and IVF have been outlawed, and personhood is granted at conception. The novel follows several women whose lives become increasingly constrained by these laws. Zumas’s prose is sharp, poetic, and deeply empathetic, weaving together stories that reveal the intimate consequences of political extremism. The book is both speculative and deeply grounded in contemporary debates about bodily autonomy. It offers a chilling, resonant portrait of how reproductive control becomes a form of state power.