{"product_id":"9780811239059","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":"Malén Denis","offers":[{"title":"New Directions Publishing |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-02-03","offer_id":47350570975487,"sku":"9780811239059","price":24.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a3238223-1234-45be-ad42-6275b40e5bb2.jpg?v=1760457075","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780811239059","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}