![]() ![]() ![]() Starved, sedated, the girls cant be sure of anything-except the painful episodes in their pasts that link them. Down a hallway echoing loudly with the voices of mysterious men, in a stark compound deep in the Australian outback, other captive women are just coming to. Verla, a young woman who seems vaguely familiar, sits nearby. Drugged, dressed in old-fashioned rags, and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in a barren room. As the Guardian writes, contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror. Book Synopsis A Handmaids Tale for the 21st century (Prism Magazine), Woods dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. Most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage-from authors website. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. ![]() In each girls past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are, or how they came to be there with eight other girls. About the Book Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. ![]()
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