{"product_id":"the-pedestrian-9781643623115","title":"The Pedestrian","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Valerie Hsiung\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Nightboat Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Nightboat Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - Asian American \u0026amp; Pacific Islander\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poet's novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror of displacement.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story, \u003ci\u003eThe pedestrian\u003c\/i\u003e meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes demand a more defective detective. To conjure the source of this text's trauma, the poet becomes a ritual detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through distortion and echo--courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. An ill pastoral of displacement, The pedestrian turns domestic spaces into underworlds, the body of the exiled child into a prophetic threshold--it listens as much as it speaks, attuned to forces beyond itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999462834327,"sku":"9781643623115","price":869.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781643623115.webp?v=1783600706","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-pedestrian-9781643623115","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}