{"product_id":"october-perpetua-jeremy-lo-9798295658273","title":"October Perpetua","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarshall Oriente has been frozen at five years old for twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis mother gave up her body to keep him suspended. A six-month arrangement that became permanent. His hair kept growing. His body didn't. Now it hangs behind him like a crown of many textures he never asked to wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen October collapses, everything tears open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath St. Louis, mothers rupture from pods buried in caverns no one was supposed to find. Fathers pass through Marshall's throat like language, like ritual, like something older than cities. The violence is collective. Ecstatic. Sacrificial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Marshall finally speaks, seven words crack it all open. What emerges has been waiting beneath the building the whole time. Patient, plural, and hungry to be born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome families break. Some break open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDystopian thriller meets Dionysian catharsis in a novel about suspended childhoods, maternal sacrifice, and the terrible grace of what happens when a body is finally allowed to move.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy Lo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798295658273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy Lo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d","brand":"Jeremy Lo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48460376473855,"sku":"9798295658273","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8e091b81-2912-492b-8908-24cf13251b49.jpg?v=1777414342","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/october-perpetua-jeremy-lo-9798295658273","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}