The Water Cure

Sophie Mackintosh

ISBN 10: 0525562834 / ISBN 13: 9780525562832

Published by Anchor Books 03 D, 2019

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Synopsis:

"A gripping, sinister fable!" --Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. Here on his island, 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 King disappears and two men and a boy wash ashore, the sisters' safe world begins to unravel. 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 are forced to confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent.

A haunting, riveting debut, The Water Cure is a fiercely poetic feminist revenge fantasy that's a startling reflection of our time.

Review: "Chilling. . . . Unsettling. . . . Feels both futuristic and like an eerily familiar fable."
--The New York Times

"Remarkable. . . . Mackintosh seamlessly weaves together the themes of Shakespeare . . . with the very modern issue of toxic masculinity."
--The Washington Post

"Sensational. . . . Part fable, part feminist dystopia, Mackintosh's taut novel turns a keen, unsparing eye on violence, patriarchy, and desire."
--Esquire

"Mackintosh's novel follows in the footsteps of The Handmaid's Tale . . . but this debut has its own alluring style."
--Vogue

"Ingenious and incendiary."
--Laura Miller, The New Yorker

"A tart, uncanny debut novel."
--NPR

"Haunting. . . . Sumptuous."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Gorgeously dark, disturbing, and provocative."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"Eerie and quietly stunning."
--Bomb

"Creepy and sexy in equal measure."
--The Independent

"An evocative coming-of-age novel."
--Kirkus Reviews

"[An] intense, ambitious debut."
--Publishers Weekly

"An extraordinary otherworldly debut. . . . [Mackintosh] is writing the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world: everything is luminous, precise, slow to the point of dread."
--The Guardian

"A haunting, disturbing look into the ways in which young women are failed by those closest to them, and how those failures echo outward, poisoning all of existence."
--Nylon

"There's something Joni Mitchell-esque about the lyrical, emotional tone of the prose. . . . Mackintosh's profound faith in sisterhood imbues her particular dark vision with beauty and a kind of hope."
--Newsday

"A feminist dystopian fairy tale--evocative, suspenseful, and bleak--in short, everything this age seems to be demanding."
--Fresh Air

"Demonstrate[s] why the subtlest fiction is often the most powerful."
--Vulture

"This riveting debut adds another dimension to a post-Handmaid's Tale world."
--The Telegraph

"Startling. . . . Mackintosh is a wonderful stylist; the full scope of her imagination, as well as the cohesion of her vision, is evident on every page."
--The Irish Times

"A hypnotic read. . . . This extraordinary debut is a feminist quasi-dystopian read for fans of Hot Milk, The Girls, and The Vegetarian."
--Elle (UK)

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Water Cure
Publisher: Anchor Books 03 D
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good