{"product_id":"preorder-fetal-position","title":"[PREORDER] Fetal Position","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease date: December 8, 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\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 returns with a speculative novel in which a burnt-out corporate employee 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\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the near future, “high-value” intelligent women are recruited by a mysterious start-up called Hatch to become traditional wives to combat the historically low birthrate and the supposed male loneliness epidemic. In return, you’ll no longer have to work and you’ll get a subsidized house, land, and a robot butler that’ll do all domestic labor for you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou simply trade in your corporate labor for child labor—through being inseminated with a male match’s sperm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo when she receives an invitation to Hatch, she’s wooed by their promises of connection and happiness. But when women start disappearing and dying around her, she races 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith biting social critique, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFetal Position\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Call \u0026 Response Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45156832018501,"sku":"9781668094396","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/6621\/4213\/files\/9781668094396.jpg?v=1781472728","url":"https:\/\/www.callandresponsechi.com\/products\/preorder-fetal-position","provider":"Call \u0026 Response Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}