{"product_id":"the-pedestrian-valerie-hsiung-9781643623115","title":"The Pedestrian","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poet's novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror of displacement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Valerie Hsiung\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643623117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643623115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightboat Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Valerie Hsiung","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47473743134975,"sku":"9781643623115","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-pedestrian-valerie-hsiung-9781643623115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}