{"product_id":"sour-cherry","title":"Sour Cherry","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035416158\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (UK)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Headline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment' KAREN JOY FOWLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[A] \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ereminder about what it means to be alive . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewith razor-sharp prose and diction so precise' MORGAN TALTY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Read it and be changed' B. PLADEK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSomething terrible has happened. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a mysterious apartment filled with ghosts, our unnamed narrator attempts to explain this to her child - \u003ci\u003ehow do I talk about this? \u003c\/i\u003eshe wonders. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe truth must become something beautiful. \u003ci\u003eWe must begin with a fairy tale. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you leave, you die. But if you die, you stay.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA debut novel as emotionally poignant as it is fiercely smart, \u003ci\u003eSour Cherry \u003c\/i\u003eis an arresting debut examining toxic masculinity through its chorus of women \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e deconstructing the idea of what makes someone a monster.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41506916728965,"sku":"PR395418","price":41.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNWY7FD2ONP9.jpg?v=1769646511","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/sour-cherry","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}