The Water Cure: A Novel

The Water Cure: A Novel

<b><b>"A gripping, sinister fable!"--MARGARET ATWOOD</b>, via Twitter<br><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE</b><br><b></b><br><b>A dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men</b></b><br><br>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: <i>Do not enter</i>. Or viewed from another angle: <i>Not safe to leave</i>. 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.<br>     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 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?<br>     A haunting, riveting debut about the capacity for violence and the potency of female desire, <i>The Water Cure </i>both devastates and astonishes as it reflects our own world back at us.