{"product_id":"wetlands-9780802144690","title":"Wetlands","description":"\u003ci\u003eWetlands\u003c\/i\u003e--an international sensation with more than a million copies sold worldwide--has been at the center of a heated debate about feminism and sexuality since its publication last spring. Charlotte Roche's controversial debut novel is the story of Helen Memel, an outspoken, sexually precocious eighteen-year-old lying in a hospital bed as she recovers from an operation. To distract herself, she ruminates on her past sexual and physical adventures in increasingly uncomfortable detail. The result is a funny, shocking, and fearlessly intimate manifesto on sex, hygiene, and the compulsion to obliterate the covenant that keeps girls clean, quiet, and nice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirty-year-old Charlotte Roche, born in High Wycombe but raised in Germany, has been a recognizable face in her adopted home country since she started working as a presenter on Viva, the German equivalent of MTV, in the mid-1990s. She went on to write and present programs and late-night talk shows for Arte and ZDF, and won the highly respected Grimme Prize for television in 2004.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50669270499602,"sku":"9780802144690","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be6fc6fc-26bc-4e6a-b225-e3d6daf7b852.jpg?v=1733757478","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wetlands-9780802144690","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}