{"product_id":"9781035416189","title":"Sour Cherry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment' KAREN JOY FOWLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[A] reminder about what it means to be alive . . . with razor-sharp prose and diction so precise' MORGAN TALTY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Read it and be changed' B. PLADEK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSomething terrible has happened.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a mysterious apartment filled with ghosts, our unnamed narrator attempts to explain this to her child - how do I talk about this? she wonders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe truth must become something beautiful. We must begin with a fairy tale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd 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. As 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you leave, you die. But if you die, you stay.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wildfire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57019989590389,"sku":"9781035416189","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781035416189.jpg?v=1775129426","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781035416189","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}