{"product_id":"sweetlust-stories-9781952177729","title":"Sweetlust: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Feminist Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Feminist Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe eleven stories in \u003ci\u003eSweetlust\u003c\/i\u003e interweave feminist critique, intertextuality, and science fiction tropes in an irreverent portrait of our past, present, and future.\u003c\/b\u003eIn a dystopian world with no men, women are \"rehabilitated\" at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of Young Werther\u003c\/i\u003e refocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte.Asja Bakic deploys the speculative and weird to playfully interrogate conversations around artificial intelligence, gender fluidity, and environmental degradation. As she did in her acclaimed debut \u003ci\u003eMars\u003c\/i\u003e, Bakic once again upends her characters' convictions and identities--and infuses each disorienting universe with sly humor and off-kilter eroticism. Visceral and otherworldly, \u003ci\u003eSweetlust\u003c\/i\u003e takes apart human desire and fragility, repeatedly framing pleasure as both inviting and perilous.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Feminist Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45036426395799,"sku":"9781952177729","price":852.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781952177729.webp?v=1768543524","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sweetlust-stories-9781952177729","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}