{"product_id":"the-book-of-destructions-9781963115895","title":"The Book of Destructions","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Margarita Vélez Verbel | María del Castillo Sucerquia | Douglas Cole\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Unsolicited Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Unsolicited Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - Hispanic \u0026amp; Latino\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Destructions\u003c\/em\u003e, Margarita V�lez Verbel dismantles the foundations of inherited power.\u003c\/strong\u003e The sacred is interrogated, the familial pedestal cracked open. Father and mother lose their mythic shine, and society emerges as a snarled, punishing knot where freedom and dignity are routinely sacrificed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing holds still here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Pain burns clean through memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e God mirrors the patriarchy that worships Him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"destruction\" at the heart of this book is the deliberate breaking of the ancient rules meant to keep women obedient, invisible, and domestic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid-the acclaimed king who felled Goliath-appears instead in his full grotesquerie: a predatory man who cloaked violence against girls in divine approval. John the Baptist-self-appointed moral sentinel-hurls \"whore\" at Salome's mother while ignoring the rot within his own tradition. And in a satisfying reversal, the prophet who despised women is finally undone by a woman's whim, a poetic justice rendered with the sharp edge this book wields so well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV�lez Verbel's work is not an act of destruction for its own sake-it is a necessary breaking, a blaze set to the myths that have ruled women's bodies and lives for millennia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unsolicited Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592198799511,"sku":"9781963115895","price":1366.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781963115895.webp?v=1774976797","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-book-of-destructions-9781963115895","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}