Wry and urgent, defiant and stylish, Zumas’ braided tale follows the intertwined fates of four women whose lives this law irrevocably alters. Wade and renders criminal such acts as abortion, single-parent adoption and in vitro fertilization. Zumas sets the action in a small, coastal Oregon town in a grim near future in which the United States has passed the Personhood Amendment granting “the constitutional right to life, liberty, and property to a fertilized egg at the moment of conception.” This sexist and oppressive measure reverses Roe v.
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