{"product_id":"gilding-the-sinister-9798245770246","title":"Gilding The Sinister","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alden Vire\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Psychological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if animals didn't turn against us-\u003cbr\u003ethey simply stopped helping?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a faint, global aurora known as \u003ci\u003eThe Long Light\u003c\/i\u003e passes across the sky, nothing appears to change. No panic. No mass die-offs. No explanations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen animals begin to withdraw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePets no longer intervene. Service animals hesitate. Livestock stop reproducing. Wildlife avoids roads, crops, and human proximity. Across the world, humanity realizes-too late-that it was never alone at the top of the system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTold through interwoven perspectives-families, observers, and those who depend on animals for survival-\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eGilding the Sinister\u003c\/b\u003e unfolds as a slow, unnerving collapse of assumptions. There is no villain to fight, no cure to discover, and no moment where nature strikes back in anger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife simply stops carrying us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarkly ironic, unsettlingly calm, and deeply human, \u003cb\u003eGilding the Sinister\u003c\/b\u003e is a quiet horror novel about dependence, entitlement, and what remains when the world decides to step aside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no resolution.\u003cbr\u003eThere is only the new baseline.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594360176791,"sku":"9798245770246","price":845.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798245770246.webp?v=1774985704","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gilding-the-sinister-9798245770246","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}