{"product_id":"pathemata-by-maggie-nelson-9781529951363","title":"Pathemata","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA profound and deeply personal exploration of pain, the body, and loss by the beloved author of \u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Argonauts\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's not the dream that matters, it's the telling of the dream - the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMerging dreams and dailies, \u003cem\u003ePathemata\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the narrator's tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss - the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father, and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47648328483052,"sku":"9781529951363","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529951363-pathemata.jpg?v=1779256609","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/pathemata-by-maggie-nelson-9781529951363","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}