{"product_id":"among-strange-victims-daniel-saldaa-pars-9781566894302","title":"Among Strange Victims","description":"\"Brief, brilliantly written, and kissed by a sense of the absurd....like a much lazier, Mexico City version of Dostoevsky's Underground Man.\"--\u003cb\u003eJohn Powers, \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Daniel Salda Par﨎 knows how to talk about those other tragedies populating daily life: a boring, unwanted marriage; mind numbing office work; family secrets. He builds on those bricks of tedium a greatly enjoyable and splendidly well-written suburban farce.\" \u003cb\u003e--Yuri Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel. Earthy, playful, and sly, \u003ci\u003eAmong Strange Victims \u003c\/i\u003eis a psychedelic ode to the pleasures of not measuring up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Salda Par﨎 \u003c\/b\u003e(born Mexico City, 1984) is an essayist, poet, and novelist whose work has been translated into English, French, and Swedish and anthologized, most recently in \u003ci\u003eMexico20: New Voices, Old Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e, published in the United Kingdom by Pushkin Press. \u003ci\u003eAmong Strange Victims \u003c\/i\u003eis his first novel to appear in the United States. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Salda Par﨎\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1566894301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566894302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2016 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2016\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Salda Par﨎","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987887882495,"sku":"9781566894302","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cac50ba0-bbfa-433e-9c4e-34c2183a4faa.jpg?v=1683291445","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/among-strange-victims-daniel-saldaa-pars-9781566894302","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}