A gripping sinister fable Margaret Atwood via ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR GLAMOUR GOOD HOUSEKEEPING LIT HUB THRILLIST King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters Grace Lia and Sky. Here on his island women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cultlike rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world. But when King disappears and two men and a boy wash ashore the sisters safe world begins to unravel. Over the span of one blistering hot week a psychological catandmouse game plays out. Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters are forced to confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent. A haunting riveting debut The Water Cure is a fiercely poetic feminist revenge fantasy thats a startling reflection of our time. show more