Read this during a week in mid July 2022. I had read her earlier novel Mudbound in May of this year and enjoyed it enough to want to read her second novel right away and especially since this one was so timely at this moment in time.
The plot of this novel is a dystopian reimagining of The Scarlet Letter set in a future theocratic America that is recovering from a pandemic and has overturned Roe vs Wade. Women who have had an abortion are considered murderers and as such are given a genetic procedure that dyes their skin red. In this near future Christian America criminals are dyed the skin color to indicate their crime and are called "chromes".
I read this book very quickly right after the Supreme Court overruled Roe V Wade. I thought it was a very well written and thought out book that covered the issues of women's rights in a country run by a Christian totalitarian government. One of the plot lines is the smuggling of women out of the country to Canada to get abortions or have their chrome reversed using an underground railroad. It was a very fascinating story under the current circumstances.
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