![]() ![]() Eivor was too old to be unmarried - nineteen.” ![]() Roberta Stephens, or Ro, a high school history teacher and biographer, is so desperate to become pregnant that she spends countless hours and dollars (all on credit cards) on fertility treatments, “submitting her area to all kinds of invasion without understanding a fraction of what’s being done to it.” Excerpts of her biography-in-progress of an intrepid and unsung female polar explorer named Eivor Minervudottir appear throughout the book in fragmentary notes and cross-outs: “The mother informed the explorer only two days before the wedding that she was to marry a man she’d never set eyes on, a widowed salmoner aged fifty-two. ![]() 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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