{"product_id":"whether-violent-or-natural-9781419764660","title":"Whether Violent or Natural","description":"\u003cb\u003eNatasha Calder's \u003ci\u003eWhether Violent or Natural\u003c\/i\u003e is an unnerving, sinister, and brilliant dystopian novel about the choices we make at the end of the world, posing the question: Who can you trust when there's almost no one left?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Years after complete antibiotic resistance has brought about global devastation, Kit ekes out an existence on a remote island alongside the taciturn Crevan, who has more recently fled the mainland. With once-curable diseases running riot, desperate measures are in place there: those not yet infected are given experimental vaccines, and those for whom it's already too late are culled. But Kit and Crevan are safe, protected on their island by a collapsing castle that holds a greenhouse and a well-stocked bunker within its ruins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When a woman washes ashore--near drowned but clinging to life--the question of her fate threatens the fragile balance of Kit and Crevan's isolated world. While Crevan wants to keep her alive, Kit isn't so sure. And there's more to wrestle with: Kit and Crevan each have secrets--secrets they have been keeping both from each other and from themselves. As the crisis brought about by the drowned woman's appearance consumes them, the fictions of their shared existence crumble, and the truth begins to emerge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhether Violent or Natural\u003c\/i\u003e is a startlingly original and thrilling novel for readers of Susanna Clarke's \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e, Shirley Jackson's \u003ci\u003eWe Have Always Lived in the Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, and Emily St. John Mandel's \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e. In the tenseness of its plotting, the gradual unfolding of truth, and in the strange and gripping intensity of its narrator's voice, \u003ci\u003eWhether Violent or Natural\u003c\/i\u003e is an intelligent, unputdownable novel that welcomes a huge new talent to the genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatasha Calder\u003c\/b\u003e earned her degree in English from Trinity College Dublin and her master's in medieval literature from Cambridge University. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Stinging Fly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLackington's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCuriosities\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, and she is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Offset\u003c\/i\u003e by Calder Szewczak. She is based in the UK. \u003ci\u003eWhether Violent or Natural\u003c\/i\u003e is her first solo novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harry N. Abrams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50453771125010,"sku":"9781419764660","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_48fefef6-42bf-4889-aa9a-5f94ac00acc5.jpg?v=1729856493","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/whether-violent-or-natural-9781419764660","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}