The characters, each marked by their own public scandal, are silenced and shackled by a cruel system of corporate control and misogyny. Charlotte Wood depicts a world where a woman's sexuality has become a weapon turned against her. Starved, sedated, the girls can't 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. This gripping, provocative, and timely book will resonate with its readers for many years. WINNER OF THE 2016 STELLA PRIZE, THE AUSTRALIAN INDIE BEST FICTION BOOK AND OVERALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS The Natural Way of Things is at once lucid and illusory, a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of mankind's own vast contradictions-the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body.
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