{"product_id":"sea-poison","title":"Sea, Poison","description":"\u003cp\u003eCumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia--\u003cem\u003ethis city of hospitals\u003c\/em\u003e--who works at the upscale grocery Sea \u0026amp; Poison and is navigating the onset of an autoimmune condition. To start a medication that may help, an eye exam is required, and this leads to a nightmare laser eye surgery. The laser shoots into her brain, making her language spare and her sentences clauseless, a vexing constraint that stalls her book on gynecological malpractice. She wants others, in the realm of our for-profit medical industry \"that renders the Hippocratic Oath its opposite,\" to\u003cem\u003e see poison\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Cumin is kicked out of her boyfriend Mari's studio after he falls for Janine, their landlord, and starts renting a closet in the bedroom of polyamorous Maron--who is hooking up with Alix, whom Cumin lusts after. Disheveled from medicines and medical scams, Cumin declares, \"The BDE of Alix was getting to me. A coin purse of leopard neck muscles was opening in my underpants!\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaren Beilin's darkly funny, hypnotic story is at once an homage to Shusaku Endo's terrifying novel of human vivisection \u003cem\u003eThe Sea and Poison\u003c\/em\u003e and to the spirit of OuLiPo, the pioneering French writing group that sought new literary potential through constraints. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53970792710510,"sku":"9780811239516","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_e04cea9e-b427-4de1-a653-f3daa9042d59.jpg?v=1781713431","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/sea-poison","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}