Leni Zumas
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Language
English
Description
Abortion is illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to...
Author
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy discovers his blind mother making a pass at his new best friend. A woman works in a factory by day and tends to a menagerie of sick animals by night. An aspiring witch is disillusioned by her spiritual shortcomings. A girl from a town so small it doesn't exist on any map runs away with a rock band-all the while attempting to chart her way back home.
The odds stacked against them, the lovingly rendered outsiders in these stories find...
Author
Series
Native tongue volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is the year 2205 and the women of Earth are once again property. Two women, Nazareth and Michaela--one a brilliant linguist, the other a rebel servant--are destined to challenge the power of men. What neither woman realizes is that a revolution is already underway: women, hidden away in Barren Houses, are slowly creating a language of their own to free them from men's control and make resistance possible for all women." -- back cover.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
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.
Five women. One question. What is a woman for?
In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. Ro, a single