![]() ![]() Grace, Lia, and Sky are left to fend for themselves as the men grow impatient, proprietary, and threatening. Mother shows her daughters how to use a pistol before she too disappears. Then King disappears, and two men and a boy wash ashore. Mother teaches her daughters caustic 20-something Grace, touch-hungry teenage Lia, and their youngest, Sky to suppress emotions, love only each other, and prepare for the worst. One couple, King and Mother, choose to raise their three daughters surrounded by sea and barbwire their only visitors are women seeking therapies like the water cure (near-drowning to fortify against toxins and fear). At an unspecified time in the future, global warming and pollution have poisoned the planet, making men more violent and women vulnerable. Mackintosh's intense, ambitious debut, longlisted for the Man Booker, evokes a feminist dystopia where three sisters live in isolation meant to protect them from a toxic world that has become particularly dangerous for women. ![]()
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