{"product_id":"the-natural-way-of-things-a-novel-by-charlotte-wood","title":"The Natural Way of Things: A Novel by Charlotte Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRiverhead Books:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003efor our age” (\u003ci\u003eThe Economist)\u003c\/i\u003e, this dystopian tale about a group of women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable and international classic from the Booker-shortlisted author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStone Yard Devotional\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Weekend.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eTwo women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStrangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other women, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious jailers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoing hard labor under a sweltering sun, the prisoners soon learn what links them: in each woman's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey pray for rescue but as the hours turn into days and the days into weeks and months, it becomes clear that the women must rescue themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Natural Way of Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a lucid and illusory fable and a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of humankind's own vast contradictions—the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dotters Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52059571585317,"sku":"9798217047383","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2167\/5269\/files\/9798217047383.jpg?v=1772915296","url":"https:\/\/dottersbooks.com\/products\/the-natural-way-of-things-a-novel-by-charlotte-wood","provider":"Dotters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}