{"product_id":"the-water-cure","title":"The Water Cure","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides\u003c\/i\u003e in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A gripping, sinister fable!\" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKing has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters. He has lain the barbed wire; he has anchored the buoys in the water; he has marked out a clear message: Do not enter. Or viewed from another angle: Not safe to leave. 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when their father, the only man they've ever seen, disappears, the sisters retreat further inward until the day two men and a boy wash ashore. Over the span of one blistering hot week, a psychological cat-and-mouse game plays out. Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent. Can they survive this invasion? And will the male intruders?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA haunting, riveting debut about the capacity for violence and the potency of female desire, \u003ci\u003eThe Water Cure\u003c\/i\u003e both devastates and astonishes as it reflects our own world back at us.","brand":"Sophie Mackintosh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":51827718324440,"sku":"9780735239715","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2770\/5320\/files\/cover-9780735239715.jpg?v=1781546795","url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/products\/the-water-cure","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}