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The Water Cure

✍ Scribed by Sophie Mackintosh

Book ID
100168971
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
139 KB
Edition
First edition
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0593104218

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✦ Synopsis

"A gripping, sinister fable!"β€”Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE l The Handmaid's Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men
King 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: 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.
But when their father, the only man they've ever seen, disappears, they retreat further inward until the day two men and a boy wash ashore. Over the span of one blistering hot week, a psychological...

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