Sour Cherry

Name: Sour Cherry
Author: Natalia Theodoridou
ISBN: 9781035416189

Natalia Theodoridou

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Sour Cherry

Natalia Theodoridou

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#4662 of 8,085 books · #384 in Horror

Shortlisted for the Nebula Award for Best Novel (2025).

Something terrible has happened. In a mysterious apartment filled with ghosts, our unnamed narrator attempts to explain this to her child - how do I talk about this? she wonders. The truth must become something beautiful. We must begin with a fairy tale. And so she begins to construct a beautiful fairy tale for her child - one that begins with a strange baby boy whose nails grow too fast and whose skin smells of soil. As he grows from a boy into a man, a plague seems to follow him everywhere. Tragedy strikes in cycles - and wife after wife, death after death, plague after plague, every woman he touches becomes a ghost. These ghosts call out desperately to our narrator as she tries to explain, in the very real world, exactly what has happened to her. And they all agree on one thing, an inescapable truth about this man, this powerful lord who has loved them and led them each to ruin: If you leave, you die. But if you die, you stay. Sour Cherry examines toxic masculinity through its chorus of women - deconstructing the idea of what makes someone a monster.

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