{"product_id":"witches-are-coming-book-lindy-west-9780316449885","title":"The Witches are Coming","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series \u003ci\u003eShrill\u003c\/i\u003e exposes misogyny in the\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e#MeToo era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThis is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In \u003ci\u003eThe Witches\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAre Coming\u003c\/i\u003e, firebrand author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series \u003ci\u003eShrill\u003c\/i\u003e, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the twenty-first century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics-and that delivered us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e West writes, \"We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. We weren't done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form--like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can'--white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con man into the White House.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e We cannot understand how we got here,--how the land of the free became Trump's America--without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact-checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other. The truth can transform us; there is witchcraft in it. Lindy West turns on the light.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49520286171409,"sku":"CIN0316449881VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49530335756561,"sku":"CIN0316449881G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49590242672913,"sku":"GOR011016108","price":49.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50349768212753,"sku":"CIN0316449881A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50779931246865,"sku":"GOR010797780","price":30.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53228947570961,"sku":"GOR013025201","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0316449881.jpg?v=1751071296","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/witches-are-coming-book-lindy-west-9780316449885","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}