{"product_id":"2940169094183","title":"The Water Cure: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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 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 the men?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA haunting, riveting debut about the capacity for violence and the potency of female desire,\u003ci\u003e The Water Cure\u003c\/i\u003e both devastates and astonishes as it reflects our own world back at us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158856483056,"sku":"2940169094183","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169094183_p0.jpg?v=1763761038","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169094183","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}