6/23/2023 0 Comments Leni zumas red clocks![]() ![]() The novel follows the lives of four women in coastal Oregon - Ro, the the biographer and high school history teacher struggling to have a baby on her own, Susan, the wife mired in an unhappy marriage, Mattie, one of Ro's students who becomes pregnant, and Gin, the mender. Zumas lives in Oregon and teaches in the creative writing program at Portland State University. Red Clocks Overview Red Clocks, by Leni Zumas, depicts a world just like ours, with one exception: abortion is now illegal. ![]() She has received grants and fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Zumas (The Listener, 2012, etc.) is a lyrical polymath of a writer: she loves wordplay and foreign terms, she has an ear for dialogue, and she knows an impressive amount about herbal healing, Arctic exploration. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Guernica, The Cut, Tin House, and elsewhere. ![]() She is also the author of FAREWELL NAVIGATOR: STORIES (2008) and the novel THE LISTENERS (2012). Zumas was a finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Vulture called it one of the 100 Most Important Books of the 21st Century So Far. The novel was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and was named a Best Book of 2018 by The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Entropy, and the New York Public Library. Leni Zumas’s bestselling novel RED CLOCKS won the 2019 Oregon Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Neukom Award for Speculative Fiction. ![]()
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