{"product_id":"fetal-position-a-novel","title":"Fetal Position: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eLike a \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e episode that feels all too terrifyingly real, this speculative novel from \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe author of the \u003ci\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e Book Club pick \u003ci\u003eThe Fortunes of Jaded Women\u003c\/i\u003e follows a burnt-out corporate employee who joins a start-up that promises domestic ease—but as women begin to disappear, she must confront the violent cost of complicity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a near future plagued by plummeting birthrates and a male loneliness epidemic, a mysterious start-up called Hatch recruits “high-value” women with a seductive promise: trade your grueling work life for subsidized security, a beautiful home, and a robotic butler to handle every domestic burden.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYou simply trade in your corporate labor for child labor—through being inseminated with a male match’s sperm.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLena Do is one of those women. She’s been stuck in corporate America for far too long. She hates her life. She has no nuclear family, no cousins, and no support system. The world is shrinking, and it’s not just the men who are lonely.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSo when she receives an invitation to Hatch, she’s wooed by their promises of connection and happiness. But the pristine, utopian facade begins to crack when the women around her vanish, and has no choice but to race against the clock to uncover the truth behind the company before she’s trapped forever—all the while trying to discern whose side her robot butler is really on.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith biting social critique, \u003ci\u003eFetal Position\u003c\/i\u003e examines survival, complicity, artificial life, bodily autonomy, and the chilling reality of an increasingly data-driven world that optimizes who deserves love—and who deserves to live.","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46036353548479,"sku":"9781668094396","price":49.49,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/files\/70816-1846f66710764b8ca302e2b4e36270eb9f2934ab09dac4fe9fa896aa6c24157f.jpg?v=1787017737","url":"https:\/\/popweasel.co.nz\/products\/fetal-position-a-novel","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}