{"product_id":"womb-city-paperback","title":"Womb City - Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale \u003c\/i\u003ewith \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After a drug-fueled evening culminates in an eerie car accident, Nelah commits a desperate crime and buries the body, daring to hope that she can keep one last secret. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe truth claws its way into Nelah's life from the grave. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the ghost of her victim viciously hunts down the people Nelah holds dear, she is thrust into a race against the clock: in order to save any of her remaining loved ones, Nelah must unravel the political conspiracy her victim was on the verge of exposing--or risk losing everyone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in a cruel futuristic surveillance state where bodies are a government-issued resource, this harrowing story is a twisty, nail-biting commentary on power, monstrosity, and bodily autonomy. In sickeningly evocative prose, \u003ci\u003eWomb City \u003c\/i\u003einterrogates how patriarchy pits women against each other as unwitting collaborators in their own oppression. In this devastatingly timely debut novel, acclaimed short fiction writer Tlotlo Tsamaase brings a searing intelligence and Botswana's cultural sensibility to the question: just how far must a woman go to bring the whole system crashing down?","brand":"Erewhon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46584181784732,"sku":"9781645661016","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0712\/7616\/7324\/files\/9781645661016.jpg?v=1774479888","url":"https:\/\/bronzeandbrass.store\/products\/womb-city-paperback","provider":"Bronze \u0026 Brass","version":"1.0","type":"link"}