The water cure : a novel / Sophie Mackintosh.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735235342 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 269 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First United States edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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Subject: | Women > Crimes against > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Dystopian fiction. |
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- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2019 January #1
DEBUT This first novel from award-winning short story writer Mackintosh is set on the edge of a postapocalyptic world. Three sisters, Grace, Lia, and Sky, live in a moldering spa hotel with their mother and a father called King. The parents have kept the young women isolated from the mainland, where environmental toxicity and gender wars have ravaged the female population; Grace's pregnancy can only be the result of incest. The hotel somehow has running water and a pool, and the girls languish in shabby luxury. Occasionally, damaged women arrive on the shore, and the mother gives them a water cure, which involves salt water purges and muslin wraps. The tension ratchets up when King fails to return from a trip to the mainland for provisions, and their insulated women's world is violated when two men and a boy wash up on the beach.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal.VERDICT This image-laden and lyrical first novel, its short chapters interspersed with brief, disturbing messages from women from the mainland, imagines a societal breakdown that has inflicted most of its harm on women, which seems both frightening and inevitable, offering a dark, extended metaphor on toxic male/female relations. [See Prepub Alert, 7/9/18.]âReba Leiding, emerita, James Madison Univ. Lib., Harrisonburg, VA - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2018 August #1
Rigorously protected by their father, the only man they've ever seen, three sisters must deal with sexual frisson, sibling rivalry, and real fear when three men and a boy wash ashore. A debut novel from the winner of multiple story awards.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal.