Sleeping Beauties
by Stephen King and Owen King
Fiction
Sleeping Beauties
This is a genre-bending novel that merges horror with dystopian social commentary and is packed with big themes: gender politics, toxic masculinity, addiction, violence, and the balance (or imbalance) of power between the sexes. The story may spark deep reflection for you on these issues, as it did for us. You will find yourself thinking about one of the novel’s central provocations for the next several days, and that is “What happens when the gendered power dynamic is flipped?” Perhaps we will find out in real life…
