{"product_id":"lithium-paperback","title":"Lithium - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102316859615,"sku":"9780811239059","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/tJlO6JWrn_9780811239059.webp?v=1781079347","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/lithium-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}