![]() In vitro fertilization is illegal, too-“the amendment outlaws the transfer of embryos from laboratory to uterus. Abortion, now tantamount to murder, is outlawed. That logic expands and becomes a whole complement of encroaching strictures. The new president’s first act is to pass something called the Personhood Amendment, which grants a fertilized egg at conception the same rights-life, liberty, and property-as every citizen in the United States. ![]() And unlike real administrations, where agendas get stalled in the vagaries of lawmaking, the hyper-conservative administration in Red Clocks is ruthlessly effective. The book is loudly, unapologetically political. ![]() ![]() Red Clocks, Leni Zumas’s fierce, well-formed, hilarious, and blisteringly intelligent novel, is squarely a piece of Trump-era art, a product of the past two trying years in which the main players either brag about sexual assault or won’t even associate with women to whom they aren’t married. ![]()
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