A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex .

Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.

Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese—and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby—and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it—Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family—and raise the baby together?

This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.

她曾经历了长平之战，见证了数十万人的坑杀。她曾率领大秦铁骑，与六国逐鹿天下。她见过天下三分，山河破碎。也听过那袅袅的隆中琴音。贞观盛世她曾一醉今朝，那千古女帝又是如何芳华？她鲜衣怒马过，也曾羽扇纶巾。做过田舍农，也为过教书生。却没人知道，这么一个人，活了两千年。嘛，比较轻松悠哉的历史文吧，因为个人原因可能并不能做到完全符合历史，经得起考证。但我会尽力查全资料来写的。第一次写这种文章，我还是希望写的有趣一些，哈哈。最后，变身慎入哈，单身向的。

她曾经历了长平之战，见证了数十万人的坑杀。她曾率领大秦铁骑，与六国逐鹿天下。她见过天下三分，山河破碎。也听过那袅袅的隆中琴音。贞观盛世她曾一醉今朝，那千古女帝又是如何芳华？她鲜衣怒马过，也曾羽扇纶巾。做过田舍农，也当过教书生。却没人知道，有这么一个人，活了两千年。




在每一个时代里，都曾经又那么一些人为了他们抱负，在历史上写下了过他们的一笔，这每一笔都在一点点的造就一个更好的世道。




也正是因为他们，才铸就了这数千年来的恢弘篇章，铸就了这世世炎黄的绘卷。




世上从来没有过一个完美的世道，但是会越来越好，因为始终有人在为之努力着。




醒掌天下权，醉卧美人膝，五千年风华烟雨，是非成败转头空！

昔日顶级工程师卫三穿成星际失学儿童，靠着捡垃圾变废为宝，终于赶在开学季攒了一笔钱，立刻要去报名上学。
她打算将来成为一个机甲师，据说特别赚钱，还和自己本行息息相关，计划通√
万万没想到因为贪学费便宜，卫三报错了专业，成了一名机甲单兵——那种成天刀口舔血的暴力狂
卫·文静·贫穷·工程师：“……”
但环境不能使她屈服，卫三决定以后趁空闲时间自学成才。
某大赛训练期，有媒体依次采访拍摄各校单兵，全星网直播，观众可以看见所有人都在拼命训练，重力加压、贴身肉搏、远战纠缠等等。
【YY近战太强了吧，那把光刀一出，谁敢近身！】
【ww那手鞭子甩得绝了，牛逼！！！】
随后录到卫三，她盘腿坐在训练大厅，正低头聚精会神捧着一本书看。
【那个卫三在看什么？】
镜头拉近，卫三手中书的封面顿时被全星网看得一清二楚：《青飞教您二十一天成为机甲师》
观众：……
这书名一听就不是正经人看的。
第二天星网头条：某军校生训练期间不堪重负，精神失常，试图转行。

正在末日带头打丧尸的祝宁穿越了，这次她穿越到了废土世界。
这个世界百分之八十的土地都被污染。
人类都被划分为五个等级，她成了最低级的五等公民，也就是倒霉的残次品
一穷二白的祝宁不得不去当清洁工扫垃圾。
听说，在废土世界扫垃圾钱多事儿少，堪称梦中情工。
只不过……这个扫垃圾怎么跟她理解的不一样？
进入消失的一号线，她碰到了拎着公文包，长着鱼头的鱼人。
进入网红火锅店，这家火锅店会吃人！
进入鬼宅，这间房子半夜家具会动，还会追杀主人。
就连理论上应该温馨治愈的海洋馆，都能遇到强行要求繁衍的人鱼，吸血的机械水母，还有未知的透明生物。
进个牙医诊所，一伸手，天上开始下牙齿雨。
……
不仅如此，清洁公司好像憋着什么大秘密。
人工智能疑似幕后黑手。
医药公司一脸黑心样！
祝宁莫名其妙卷入争端，走错一步都容易短命。
废土世界，人人都长着八百个心眼。
祝宁：老天是不是在玩儿我？


阅读指南：
１、有点赛博朋克风副本流，副本故事串联，世界观是墙内赛博墙外废土，前期在墙内后期在墙外。
２、污染区域内有一丢丢恐怖元素，微恐
３、女主最强！
４、全文架空，请勿代入现实


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欢迎收藏预收文《我真不想继承豪华别墅啊》
有天她突然收到了一通电话。
远房富婆阿姨死前给她留了一栋豪华大别墅，她是唯一继承人。
还有这种好事？
当天收拾行李立即赶往乡下，果然是豪华大别墅，宛如古堡。
就是看上去有些阴森森的。
穷比鬼更可怕，阴间别墅怎么了？只要她入住就是阳间的！
入住第一天，厕所滴下血红色的水。
入住第二天，半夜墙中女人哭泣。
入住第三天，一张惨白的脸紧紧相贴。
特么的这房子闹鬼！她怕自己早死。
她连夜跑路，一路跑回破旧出租屋，好不容易喘口气，打开厕所门。
她愣住了。
阴间别墅，它追上来了！


她认命走进阴间别墅，迎面撞上“它们”的遗愿清单
这里的生物非常客气，上赶着给她送遗产
也算是和蔼可亲宇宙好邻居，就是给她的生活造成了一点点小麻烦
她把朋友邀请来家中做客，说：“不好意思，我家人有点多，不过你放心，都是很好说话的。”
朋友瑟瑟发抖：“.....有没有一种可能，我说假设，我说的不一定对，你就是随便听下，你是不是撞鬼了啊？！”

立意:自强不息

A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with a one-of-a-kind job offer—only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025*

When Nadia Amin, a witty and bighearted PhD, publishes an article on deradicalization, everything changes. The United Nations comes calling with an opportunity to put her theory into practice and lead a rehabilitation program for women caught in the crosshairs of harmful ideology. And why not? Abandoned by her mother and devastated by unrequited love, she leaps at the chance.

In Iraq, Nadia quickly realizes she’s in over her head. The UN is a mess of competing interests, and her team consists of Goody Two-shoes Sherri who never passes up an opportunity to remind Nadia of her objections; and Pierre, a snippy Frenchman who has no qualms about perpetually scrolling through Grindr. But then Nadia meets Sara, a hilarious, foul-mouthed East Londoner who was pulled into radicalism at just fifteen. The two are kindred spirits, and Nadia vows to get Sara home.

As the rehabilitation program picks up traction, Sara reveals a secret that upends everything, forcing Nadia to make a drastic choice. In the fallout, Nadia’s brown-savior fantasies crumble, leaving her to wonder if she can save someone who doesn’t want to be saved.

A fierce, wildly funny, and razor-sharp exploration of radicalism, family, and the quest for belonging, Fundamentally boldly inspects one of the defining controversies of our age and introduces a fearless new voice in contemporary fiction.

In the UK, every week three women are killed by their partners. Over half the women killed by men are killed by a current or ex-partner. On average domestic abuse victims are assaulted 68 times before calling the police. There is a domestic violence epidemic happening right now, yet as a society we still turn a blind eye to it. In a culture that has normalised misogyny, we determinedly cling to the belief that domestic violence is a private matter in which both parties bear some responsibility. Even our legal system legitimises the idea that people who hurt or kill their partners have snapped and lost control, committed a 'crime of passion'. But domestic violence has a clear pattern. Jealousy. Controlling behaviour. Stalking. Verbal abuse. A history of violence. Specialising in homicide, stalking and coercive control, internationally renowned forensic criminologist and former police officer Jane Monckton-Smith has spent decades researching domestic violence cases that have ended in homicide. From her research she developed an 8-stage timeline which has revolutionised the approach to predicting homicide in domestic abuse cases. Part case study, part social commentary and part memoir of a woman dealing with domestic homicide, In Control shows that there are clear signs when a relationship is about to turn violent - we've just been trained not to see them.

上一世，沈宜秋战过白月光，斗过朱砂痣，过五关斩六将，从没落世家女熬成皇后，终于熬死了狗哔男人，荣升太后。
谁知脚底一滑，撞死在皇帝棺材上，回到还没出阁的十五岁
沈宜秋眼一睁，发现回到了新手村，气得把眼一闭翻了个身：爱谁谁，老娘这回不伺候了
尉迟越回望人间最后一眼，却看到不讨喜的皇后一头碰死在自己棺材上。尉迟越深受感动，重活一世，他决定对这个爱惨了他的女人好那么一点点……
到了前世两人初见的那天，尉迟越左等右等没等到人——沈宜秋把他鸽了
又等了几天，沈宜秋开始跟礼部尚书家的公子议亲了
又又等了几天，沈宜秋快跟人过定了
尉迟越：？？？！！！
尉迟越：汪汪汪，老婆你看我，是不是还能拯救一下？
沈宜秋：哦（滚一边去别妨碍我咸鱼躺
这是一个狗男人欠教育，女人并不想教育，狗男人只好自学成才的故事

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.

When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day.

Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' pain.

Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith...and a startling vision of human destiny.

This highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from award-winning author Octavia E. Butler “pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale ” (John Green, New York Times )—now with a new foreword by N. K. Jemisin.

在那一天，浓雾封锁了一切。
在那一天，他成为了一艘幽灵船的船长。
在那一天，他跨过浓雾，直面了一个被彻底颠覆而又支离破碎的世界——昔日的秩序已经荡然无存，奇诡的异象主宰着文明社会之外的无尽海域，孤岛城邦与挑战大海的船队已然成为文明世界仅存的灯火，而旧日的阴影却仍在幽邃深海中蠢蠢欲动，等待继续吞噬这个将亡未亡的世界。
但对于失乡号的新船长而言，只有一个问题是他首先要考虑的——
谁知道船咋开啊？！

What will you sacrifice for the truth?

Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country: President Duterte.

Now, hounded by the state, she has multiple arrest warrants against her name, and a potential 100+ years behind bars to prepare for—while she stands trial for speaking the truth.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator is the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts, and how an invisible atom bomb has exploded online that is killing our freedoms. It maps a network of disinformation—a heinous web of cause and effect—that has netted the globe: from Duterte's drug wars, to America's Capitol Hill, to Britain's Brexit, to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare, to Facebook and Silicon Valley, to our own clicks and our own votes.

Told from the frontline of the digital war, this is Maria Ressa's urgent cry for us to wake up and hold the line, before it is too late.

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◎一部资本主义过渡时期的妇女身体史
◎以女性视角对话马克思主义的代表作，探讨资本原始积累背景下性别与再生产的重磅作品
◎马克思主义女权主义经典著作，补全《资本论》缺失的女性视角。清华大学夏莹、严飞，南京大学蓝江、杨乔喻，弗吉尼亚理工大学倪湛舸等众学者诚挚推荐 ！
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非常值得一读……使我们能够更好地理解现代父权制、民族国家的崛起以及从封建主义到资本主义的过渡时期之间的密切关系。
——《卫报》
一部开创性的作品……费代里奇已经成为……新一代女权主义者的关键人物。
——雷切尔•库什纳，《火星俱乐部》作者
在描述对妇女发起的国家恐怖行为之可憎时，费代里奇写下了一本真正属于我们时代的书。既不妥协，也不傲慢。《凯列班与女巫》传达出一贯的无偏见和一位全球学者所拥有的高尚品格。它既是有关被恢复记忆的充满激情的作品，也是一记历史之锤。
——彼得•莱恩博，多伦多大学教授
本书在将猎杀女巫放入资本主义社会成长的历史过程中，完成了对现代的资本主义祛魅化成长历程的呈现。视角独特而富有感染力。理论在此获得了它的肉身化的表达，不仅具有独特的性别视角，同时更让现代性的批判充满了一种切身之痛。资本主义的诞生与发展正是在这一切身之痛当中完成自身合理化的推进。
——夏莹，清华大学哲学系教授
《凯列班与女巫》通过对女巫问题的追溯，补上了长期以来被马克思主义和其他理论忽略的向资本主义过渡过程中缺失的女性历史的一环。费代里奇让我们明白，在现代性的发展过程中，对女性的压迫，构成了资本主义原始积累的血腥基础，揭开这个奥秘，才能真正为女性主义找到一个反抗的裂隙。
——蓝江，南京大学哲学系教授
教会对巫术的镇压与资本市场的兴起和民族国家的构建相辅相成，是现代社会崛起的基石。猎巫运动以女性主导的社会组织力量和民间知识为打击目标，旨在规训女性身体，将其排斥在有偿劳动之外，被困于新建的家庭空间，从事无报酬的社会再生产劳动。猎巫、贩奴以及对自然的剥削共同构成了被传统马克思主义忽视的资本原始积累真相。《凯列班与女巫》不仅为我们展示了性别、种族、生态和宗教等诸多范畴在全球资本主义历史中的复杂交织，更是提醒我们分析重建渗透在日常生活方方面面的权力关系。
——倪湛舸，弗吉尼亚理工大学宗教与文化系副教授
在宗主国与殖民地之间的文化权力关系中，凯列班象征着对殖民者的反抗和对命运的改变。在15 至18 世纪，当有超过十万的平民女子因被指控为女巫而处死，更多的女性站起来，通过妇女运动试图摧毁资本主义制度所要求的社会规训，重新夺回对性、身体、劳动的控制。费代里奇向我们展示出，每一位独立勇敢的女性，在破除猎巫的进程中，用自己的身体推动起历史的变革。
——严飞，清华大学社会学系副教授
内容简介
本书围绕一个核心问题展开:如何解释欧洲近代初期数十万“女巫”被处死?为什么资本主义的兴起与针对妇女的战争同时发生?全书分为五个部分:15世纪前农民和工人的日常斗争;土地私有化和扩张的人口政策带来的影响;机械身体观的兴起;欧洲大陆的大规模猎巫;猎巫策略在美洲的重演与当地妇女的反击。
通过回顾这段300年的历史,费代里奇表明:猎巫运动是资本主义对于社会再生产合理化的过程体现,它为现代社会组织的两个核心原则即劳动能力和自我所有权提供了必要支撑。换言之,对女性生育和身体的控制(以攻击女巫为代表)是资本主义实现原始积累的关键步骤。
费代里奇以女性视角对话马克思的原始积累学说和福柯的身体理论，对于传统历史叙事和理论范式构成了强有力的挑战。

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more ‘plant-like’ existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye’s decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister’s husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming – impossibly, ecstatically – a tree.
Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.

In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi – the most important woman in Chinese history – brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like ‘death by a thousand cuts’ and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot and also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing’s Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs – with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences.
Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman: as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world’s population, and as a unique stateswoman.

Very funny and moving...The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams'] thinking, enlivened his world; and so might the animals do for us all, if we were to help them live.
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Join bestselling author Douglas Adams and zooligist Mark Carwardine as they take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures. Hilarious and poignant--as only Douglas Adams can be--LAST CHANCE TO SEE is an entertaining and arresting odyssey through the Earth's magnificent wildlife galaxy.

亚洲首位国际布克文学奖得主获奖作品
我在写作时，经常会思考这些问题：人类的暴力能达到什么程度；如何界定理智和疯狂；我们能在多大程度上理解别人。我希望《素食者》可以回答我的这些问题。我想通过《素食者》刻画一个誓死不愿加入人类群体的女性。
——韩江在国家布克文学奖颁奖礼上的 致辞
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1亚洲唯一布克国际 文学奖获奖作品
连续击败两位诺贝尔文学奖得主帕慕克和大江健三郎代表作《我脑袋里的怪东西》、《水死》，阎连科《四书》、“那不勒斯四部曲”终曲《失踪的孩子》等154本全球热门佳作赢得桂冠
同时，这也是布克国际历史上第一次颁奖给单本书（之前都是颁给作者终生成就）
2 享誉全球的现象级杰作，锐利如刀锋，把整个人类社会推上靶场。
荣膺韩国最高文学奖李箱文学奖、全球售出43个国家和地区版权，累计销量突破600万册。《时代周刊》、《华尔街日报》、《经济学人》、《出版人周刊》等60家媒体年度图书。
3 韩国最具国际声誉作家代表作！诺贝尔文学奖热门候选
作为韩国文坛的中坚力量，韩江极有可能成为韩国当代作家斩获诺贝尔文学奖的重要人选。
——诺贝尔文学奖得主、法国文坛领军人勒克莱齐奥
像《素食者》这样精彩描写性与疯狂的杰作，理应获得巨大的成功。
——布克文学奖得主、当代英国文坛最具影响力的作家伊恩·麦克尤恩
4与《三体》并列选入十年十佳
2019年美国权威杂志《连线》将《素食者》选入10年来10本最佳类型小说之列，同时入选的还有诺贝尔文学奖得主石黑一雄的《被掩埋的巨人》和刘慈欣的《三体》。
5 女性写作巅峰之作
入选《纽约时报》21世纪15本重塑我们思想和写作的女性写作杰作书单
6 借阅人数超过《82年的金智英》
韩国国立中央图书馆于2017年1月至2021年4月针对全国845个图书馆的借阅数据进行了分析。
结果显示，《解忧杂货店》成为20-29岁人群最爱图书。
继《解忧杂货店》之后，《素食者 》超过话题图书 《82年生的金智英》夺得韩国原创文学借阅第一名，文学总借阅率第二名。
7韩国总统文在寅、BTS防弹少年团团长金南俊、red velvet金艺彬、GOT7朴珍荣、大势演员林秀晶真诚推荐
8改编电影入围圣丹斯电影节评审团大奖-世界电影单元-最佳剧情片
为了逃避来自丈夫、家庭、社会和人群的暴力，她决定变成一棵树
在英惠的丈夫郑先生的眼中，“病”前的英惠，是个再普通不过的女子：不高不矮的个头、不长不短的头发，相貌平平，着装一般，温顺、平淡、文静。正如他所希望的那样，英惠完美地扮演了平凡妻子的角色——料理家务，伺候丈夫，就像千千万万的传统妇女一样。
然而，一场噩梦之后，妻子却突然开始拒绝吃肉，拒绝为家人准备荤菜，甚至到最后，她开始拒绝自己的“人类”身份，把自己当成了一株植物，一株只需要阳光和水，谢绝任何食物和交流的植物。而随着她被动的反叛以越来越极端和可怕的形式表现出来，丑闻、虐待和疏远开始让她螺旋进入她的幻想空间。在精神和身体的完全蜕变中，她现在危险的努力将使英惠——不可能的、狂喜的、悲剧性的——远离她曾经为人所知的自我。
《素食者》以一种抒情却又撕裂的风格，将柔情和恐怖微妙地融为一体。揭示出强烈反抗对女主人公和她身边所有人的冲击。这本凝练、精美而又令人不安的书将长久萦绕于人心，甚至潜入读者的梦中。
——国际布克文学奖主席博伊德·唐金
作为韩国文坛的中坚力量，韩江极有可能成为韩国当代作家斩获诺贝尔文学奖的重要人选。
——诺贝尔文学奖得主、法国文坛领军人勒克莱齐奥
像《素食者》这样精彩描写性与疯狂的杰作，理应获得巨大的成功。
——布克文学奖得主、当代英国文坛最具影响力的作家伊恩·麦克尤恩
这部小说里那种近乎于变态的诱惑，恰恰源自字里行间的画面诗意。它们暴力又情色，彷彿恶梦。读这本书的过程仿佛置身于充满了奇花异草的房间，浓浓的香味会扼住你的喉咙、让你睁大眼睛、震惊不已。
——荷兰《阿姆斯特丹人杂志》
翻开这本书那你就准备好被切成薄片，被涂上颜色，被拍打，被爱抚，被撕成碎片，被震惊，摇摇欲坠吧！
——美国小说家阿米莉亚·格雷

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more ‘plant-like’ existence, commits a shocking act of subversion. As her rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, Yeong-hye spirals further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming – impossibly, ecstatically – a tree. Fraught, disturbing, and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire, and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.

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Journalist Rebecca Traister’s New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is “a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently—and collectively” ( Vanity Fair ).

Long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s March, and before the #MeToo movement, women’s anger was not only politically catalytic—but politically problematic. The story of female fury and its cultural significance demonstrates its crucial role in women’s slow rise to political power in America, as well as the ways that anger is received when it comes from women as opposed to when it comes from men.

“Urgent, enlightened…realistic and compelling…Traister eloquently highlights the challenge of blaming not just forces and systems, but individuals” ( The Washington Post ). In Good and Mad , Traister tracks the history of female anger as political fuel—from suffragettes marching on the White House to office workers vacating their buildings after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Traister explores women’s anger at both men and other women; anger between ideological allies and foes; the varied ways anger is received based on who’s expressing it; and the way women’s collective fury has become transformative political fuel. She deconstructs society’s (and the media’s) condemnation of female emotion (especially rage) and the impact of their resulting repercussions.

Highlighting a double standard perpetuated against women by all sexes, and its disastrous, stultifying effect, Good and Mad is “perfectly timed and inspiring” ( People , Book of the Week). This “admirably rousing narrative” ( The Atlantic ) offers a glimpse into the galvanizing force of women’s collective anger, which, when harnessed, can change history.