{"product_id":"sour-cherry","title":"Sour Cherry","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed a Best Book by: CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS, LITHUB, GOODREADS  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúHarrowing‚Ķa fairytale for the ages, subverting the tale of Bluebeard to deconstruct the systems of gender, power, and the excuses people make for bad men.‚Äù ‚Äï\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Review of Books \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúA murder ballad sung in a dark room ‚Äï it‚Äôs slow, haunting and strangely beautiful.‚Äù ‚Äï\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e The tale begins with Agnes. After losing her baby, Agnes is called to the great manor house to nurse the local lord‚Äôs baby boy. But something is wrong with the child: his nails grow too fast, his skin smells of soil, and his eyes remind her of the dark forest. As he grows into a boy, then into man, a plague seems to follow him everywhere. Trees wither at the roots, fruits rot on their branches, and the town turns against him. The man takes a wife, who bears him a son. But tragedy strikes in cycles and his family is forced to consider their own malignancy‚Äïuntil wife after wife, death after death, plague after plague, every woman he touches becomes a ghost. The ghosts become a chorus, and they call urgently to our narrator as she tries to explain, in our very real world, exactly what has happened to her. The ghosts can 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Natalia Theodoridou‚Äôs haunting and unforgettable debut novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSour Cherry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, confronts age-old systems of gender and power, long-held excuses made for bad men, and the complicated reasons we stay captive to the monsters we love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e div\u0026gt;\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tin House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50100540473629,"sku":"9781963108194","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781963108194.jpg?v=1750797494","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/sour-cherry","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}