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Lithium

Lithium

Denis, Malén
Hatry, Laura
Wronoski, John

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0811239055
ISBN13: 9780811239059
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Feb 10 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Malén Denis's Lithium is a novel about what cannot be fully named or pinned down. Language in this book, the author notes, acts as a pharmakon--both poison and remedy--inviting the reader to navigate its ambivalence. I wrote it by following the golden thread of poetry and the echoes of psychoanalysis, letting the images lead rather than the plot. Lithium employs an especially potent, poetic language to convey love found and love lost (I'm waiting for news from you). It is a book blazing with bruised perceptions of the precarity of a life lived between jobs and between homes; it's a feverish work swinging from hope to despair, about trying drugs both prescribed and not, about migration, about cat-sitting, and about isolation, about the search for meaning and for happiness when both prove so elusive, and it is about summoning the strength to wrench oneself from indecision to action.

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