{"product_id":"lithium","title":"Lithium","description":"Malén 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.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51687854932248,"sku":"9780811239059","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/3649\/8456\/files\/imageloader_3a29eba6-a861-4916-b3c0-026ac8ebe43e.jpg?v=1771176769","url":"https:\/\/www.stopandreadbooks.com\/products\/lithium","provider":"Stop \u0026 Read Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}