{"product_id":"9780811239059","title":"Lithium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe voice that speaks to us in \u003cem\u003eLithium\u003c\/em\u003e is that of a woman in her late twenties, compulsively determined to understand everything that's happening around her: a miscarriage, an absent lover, a bad drug trip, friends who come and go, horoscopes, life-as-a-trap, and hopes of an escape…\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMalén Denis’s \u003cem\u003eLithium\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about what cannot be fully named or pinned down. “Language in this book,” the author notes, “acts as a \u003cem\u003epharmakon\u003c\/em\u003e—both poison and remedy—inviting the reader to navigate its ambivalence. I wrote it by following the golden thread of poetry and the echoes of psychoanalysis, letting the images lead rather than the plot.” \u003cem\u003eLithium\u003c\/em\u003e employs an especially potent, poetic language to convey love found and love lost (\u003cem\u003eI’m waiting for news from you\u003c\/em\u003e). It is a book blazing with bruised perceptions of the precarity of a life lived between jobs and between homes; it’s a feverish work swinging from hope to despair, about trying drugs both prescribed and not, about migration, about cat-sitting, and about isolation, about the search for meaning and for happiness when both prove so elusive, and it is about summoning the strength to wrench oneself from indecision to action.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42975090442301,"sku":"9780811239059","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780811239059_p0.jpg?v=1771581358","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780811239059","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}