The Water Cure
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press
<p> </p><p><i>I am guilty not because of my actions, to which I freely admit, but for my accession, admission, confession that I <br>executed these actions with not only deliberation and <br>premeditation but with zeal and paroxysm and purpose . . . </i></p><p><i>The true answer to your question is shorter than the lie. <br>Did you? I did.</i></p><p>This is a confession of a victim turned villain. When Ishmael Kidder's eleven-year-old daughter is brutally murdered, it stands to reason that he must take revenge <i>by any means necessary</i>. The punishment is carried out without guilt, and with the usual equipment—duct tape, rope, and superglue. But the tools of psychological torture prove to be the most devastating of all. </p><p><br>Percival Everett's most lacerating indictment to date, <i>The Water Cure</i> follows the gruesome reasoning and execution of revenge in a society that has lost a common moral ground, where rules are meaningless. A master storyteller, Everett draws upon...</p>