{"product_id":"0735235341-the_water_cure","title":"The Water Cure","description":"\n\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e meets \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKing has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. He has lain the barbed wire, he has anchored the buoys in the water; he has marked out a clear message: \u003ci\u003eDo not enter\u003c\/i\u003e. Or viewed from another angle: \u003ci\u003eNot safe to leave\u003c\/i\u003e. Here women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cult-like rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world. \u003cbr\u003eBut when their father, the only man they've ever seen, disappears, they retreat further inwards until the day three strange men wash ashore. Over the span of one blistering hot week, a pyschological cat-and-mouse game plays out. Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters are forced to reckon with the amorphous threat the strangers represent. Can they survive the men? \u003cbr\u003eA haunting, riveting debut about the capacity for violence and the potency of female desire, \u003ci\u003eThe Water Cure \u003c\/i\u003eboth devastates and astonishes as it reflects our own world back at us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScience Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScience Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eDystopian\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Hamish Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":47783637844158,"sku":"0735235341-4","price":19.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/711OclANyGL.jpg?v=1782410046","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0735235341-the_water_cure","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}