{"product_id":"subdivision-j-robert-lennon-9781644450482","title":"Subdivision","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA heady, inventive, fantastical novel about the nature of memory and the difficulty of confronting trauma \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn unnamed woman checks into a guesthouse in a mysterious district known only as the Subdivision. The guesthouse's owners, Clara and the Judge, are welcoming and helpful, if oddly preoccupied by the perpetually baffling jigsaw puzzle in the living room. With little more than a hand-drawn map and vague memories of her troubled past, the narrator ventures out in search of a job, an apartment, and a fresh start in life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccompanied by an unusually assertive digital assistant named Cylvia, the narrator is drawn deeper into an increasingly strange, surreal, and threatening world, which reveals itself to her through a series of darkly comic encounters reminiscent of \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels.\u003c\/i\u003e A lovelorn truck driver . . . a mysterious child . . . a watchful crow. A cryptic birthday party. A baffling physics experiment in a defunct office tower where some calamity once happened. Through it all, the narrator is tempted and manipulated by the bakemono, a shape-shifting demon who poses a distinctly terrifying danger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarrowing, meticulous, and deranged, \u003ci\u003eSubdivision \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant maze of a novel from the writer Kelly Link has called \"a master of the dark arts.\" With the narrative intensity and mordant humor familiar to readers of \u003ci\u003eBroken River\u003c\/i\u003e, J. Robert Lennon continues his exploration of the mysteries of perception and memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Robert Lennon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644450488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2021 pg. 26","brand":"J. Robert Lennon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050368954623,"sku":"9781644450482","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_00faf68b-a89f-4636-90e4-5665606bc7f5.jpg?v=1685006826","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/subdivision-j-robert-lennon-9781644450482","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}