{"product_id":"the-book-of-destructions","title":"THE BOOK OF DESTRUCTIONS","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; ; white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Book of Destructions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Margarita Vélez Verbel dismantles the foundations of inherited power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; ; white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNothing holds still here.\u003cbr\u003e Pain burns clean through memory.\u003cbr\u003e God mirrors the patriarchy that worships Him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; ; white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; ; white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; ; white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVélez 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unsolicited Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45163831853100,"sku":"978-1-963115-89-5","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/1995\/5244\/files\/TRANSLATIONCOVERS_81770e45-217b-4ea5-b083-b678f4d126a3.webp?v=1767374242","url":"https:\/\/shop.unsolicitedpress.com\/products\/the-book-of-destructions","provider":"Unsolicited Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}