Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro’s best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. 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. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers.
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. Get ready for a shock’ GuardianįIVE WOMEN. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
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