'This provocative exploration of female longing, frustration and determination couldn't be more timely, yet there's nothing fleeting about it.' 'A reckoning, a warning, nothing short of a miracle.'

'Anthem without manipulative soar, just a hummable unforgettable tune you believe in.' Red Clocks is unabashedly political and fiercely humane.' “In bristling sentences, Leni Zumas shows girls and women defying the excruciating restrictions imposed by both law and culture. “The women in this suspenseful book resist. They will not be circumscribed. Zumas has produced a poignant, wickedly sharp classic.” “Hilarious, terrifying, and masterful- Red Clocks reflects the horror and absurdity of our political landscape with a brilliance that ensures the book's timelessness. And I remembered how hope is forged from the ground up, through the bodies of women who won't be buried.” The bodies of women in Red Clocks are each the site of resistance and revolution. ”Move over Atwood, Leni Zumas's Red Clocks is a gender-roaring tour de force. Red Clocks is funny, mordant, baroque, political, poetic, alarming, and inspiring-not to mention a way forward for fiction now.” Her tale feels part Melvillian, part Lydia Davis, part Octavia Butler-but really Zumas’s vision is entirely her own. 'Leni Zumas here proves she can do almost anything. ROBERT LENNON, Judge, Oregon Book Award for Fiction Red Clocks entertains, instructs, and enrages, sometimes in the same sentence-it’s terrific.” Zumas manages multiple voices and points of view with aplomb, in darkly comic prose that is never less than a delight to read. It’s political without being pedantic, experimental without being obscure. “Ambitious, innovative, and utterly absorbing.

… To read this is to feel Leni Zumas knows everything.” “It’s brilliant stuff, and the woods surrounding the witchy herbalist character are both glittering and informed. 'Leni Zumas’s fierce, well-formed, hilarious, and blisteringly intelligent novel squarely a piece of Trump-era art.' 'A thoughtful, complicated picture of womanhood-and a fierce argument for individual choice.' 'A page-turning plot is rendered in sentences as gorgeous & wise as poems.' 'A lyrical & beautifully observed reflection on women's lives.' Most Important Books of the 21st Century So Far, Vulture Shortlisted, Neukom Award for Speculative Fiction, 2019īest Books of 2018, New York Public Libraryīest Feminist Fiction of 2018, Autostraddle Shortlisted, Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, 2019 Winner, Oregon Book Award for Fiction, 2019 Translated into Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, & Ukrainian.

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