{"product_id":"the-natural-way-of-things","title":"The Natural Way of Things","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A rare kind of writer and a formidable one.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wood inserts the reader straight into the jaws of her story, never relenting until the devastating end. If you raced through\u003ci\u003e I Who Have Never Known Men\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e and are looking for something with the same bite, this book belongs on your TBR.\"\u003ci\u003e --Marie Claire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe prescient feminist fable and international classic described as \"\u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale \u003c\/i\u003efor our age\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Economist), \u003c\/i\u003efrom the Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eStone Yard Devotional\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there. Doing hard labor under a sweltering sun, guarded by two inept yet vicious jailers, the prisoners soon learn what links them: in each woman's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. They pray for rescue but as the hours turn into days and the days into weeks and months, it becomes clear that the women must rescue themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in 2016 and ever more relevant upon its 10th anniversary, \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Way of Things\u003c\/i\u003e is a lucid and illusory fable and a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of humankind's own vast contradictions--the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53560413454702,"sku":"9798217047383","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_137ed986-dc17-4d94-824b-0fb0db1a2824.jpg?v=1774663187","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/the-natural-way-of-things","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}