{"product_id":"the-book-of-destructions-margarita-vzslez-verbel-9781963115895","title":"The Book of Destructions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Destructions\u003c\/em\u003e, Margarita Vélez 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\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margarita Vélez Verbel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1963115899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781963115895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unsolicited Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.21d","brand":"Margarita Vélez Verbel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447177359615,"sku":"9781963115895","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c47c29d-0e89-49d9-b7eb-c7f5b02d11c0.jpg?v=1777229355","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-book-of-destructions-margarita-vzslez-verbel-9781963115895","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}