{"product_id":"sour-cherry","title":"Sour Cherry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSomething terrible has happened. In a mysterious apartment filled with ghosts, our unnamed narrator attempts to explain this to her child - how do I talk about this? she wonders.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe truth must become something beautiful. We must begin with a fairy tale. And so she begins to construct a beautiful fairy tale for her child - one that begins with a strange baby boy whose nails grow too fast and whose skin smells of soil.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs he grows from a boy into a man, a plague seems to follow him everywhere. Tragedy strikes in cycles - and wife after wife, death after death, plague after plague, every woman he touches becomes a ghost. These ghosts call out desperately to our narrator as she tries to explain, in the very real world, exactly what has happened to her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd they all agree on one thing, an inescapable truth about this man, this powerful lord who has loved them and led them each to ruin:If you leave, you die. But if you die, you stay. A debut novel as emotionally poignant as it is fiercely smart, Sour Cherry is an arresting debut examining toxic masculinity through its chorus of women - deconstructing the idea of what makes someone a monster.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Natalia Theodoridou","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57740235800963,"sku":"9781035416189","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/sourcherry.png?v=1775568702","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.com\/products\/sour-cherry","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}