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The Burl
Hardcover
Publisher: Teasel House
Published: Jun 20 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Her son lived twenty-seven minutes. After the first Elias dies, Claire's body won't stop producing milk; mourning has rewired her into an instrument of care with nowhere to pour it. When a new pregnancy sends them to a rental house in the small town of Brownsville, Oregon, the landscape begins to answer back. The Valley learned to soften sorrow, offering something gentler. In return, it asks only what the wounded are already prepared to give.
Layering psychological horror and the postpartum body, The Burl asks what happens when damage becomes generative. For readers of literary fiction and philosophical horror alike, this is a novel of the terrible seduction of being held.
Jahan Brian Ihsan is the author of the Valley Versus novel series and Portland Witch House.
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