Description
A father’s confession begins as a cold, deliberate account of revenge after the brutal murder of his eleven-year-old daughter—an act he insists was carried out with purpose, zeal, and premeditation. As Ishmael Kidder’s plan unfolds, the novel turns from physical brutality to psychological torment, exposing how a society with fractured moral ground can make cruelty feel like logic. Blending dark humor with razor-edged philosophical inquiry, the story draws on language, theory, and the rhetoric of justification to ask what “justice” means when rules no longer restrain power. Percival Everett’s sharp, lacerating style—part courtroom monologue, part intellectual trap—creates a terrifying meditation on loss, anger, helplessness, and the dangerous seductions of certainty.
Available Editions
paperback
Graywolf Press
Published Jan 1, 2011
233 pages
ISBN: 9781555970185
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Details
First Published
2007
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Water Cure by Percival Everett.