{"product_id":"the-water-outlaws","title":"The Water Outlaws","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 2023 Pick for Vulture  The Washington Post  Publishers Weekly Mens Health  IGN  Polygon  Goodreads  Amazon  Nerd Daily  WeAreBookish Paste  Books, Bones \u0026amp; Buffy  The Escapist  Paste Magazine  SciFixFantasy  Distractify  Gizmodo  Ms. Magazine Booklist Popsugar  Book Riot  Autostraddle  The Mary Sue \u0026amp; othersFinalist for the American Library Association Carnegie MedalInspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huangs The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make historyor tear it apart.This wuxia eattherich tale is a knockout.Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperors soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job.Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefullybuilt life away.Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justicefor women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. Theyre also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats.Apart, they love like demons and fight like tigers. Together, they could bring down an empire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tordotcom","offers":[{"title":"Huang, S. L. \/ hardcover","offer_id":47842414854389,"sku":"SONG1250180422","price":9.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/91vudVbPetL.jpg?v=1773778671","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/the-water-outlaws","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}