{"product_id":"the-pedestrian-by-valerie-hsiung","title":"THE PEDESTRIAN by Valerie Hsiung","description":"\u003cp\u003e128 x 202mm, 96 pages, Black \u0026amp; white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA poet’s novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror of displacement. Emerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story, The pedestrian 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeaning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56825745473922,"sku":null,"price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/files\/IMG_4948058_3f3283f1-52ff-4817-929b-af168c1f9533.jpg?v=1787151265","url":"https:\/\/goodpress.co.uk\/products\/the-pedestrian-by-valerie-hsiung","provider":"Good Press — good books \u0026 more","version":"1.0","type":"link"}