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The Book of Destructions
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781963115895
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Published: Mar 31 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In The Book of Destructions, Margarita Vélez Verbel dismantles the foundations of inherited power. 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.
Nothing holds still here.
Pain burns clean through memory.
God mirrors the patriarchy that worships Him.
The destruction at the heart of this book is the deliberate breaking of the ancient rules meant to keep women obedient, invisible, and domestic.
David-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.
Vélez 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.
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