{"product_id":"sea-poison-by-caren-beilin-9781398559820","title":"Sea, Poison","description":"\u003cb\u003eA darkly funny, electrifying tale of polyamory, medical malfeasance and Carrie Bradshaw, written with utterly singular flair and style.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia – a city of hospitals – who works at the upscale market Sea \u0026amp; Poison, and is navigating the onset of an autoimmune condition. To start a course of medicine that might help, an eye exam is required, which leads to a nightmarish laser eye surgery. The laser shoots into her brain, making her language spare and her sentences clause-less, a vexing constraint that stalls her book on gynecological malpractice: she wants others, in the realm of this for-profit medical industry, to see poison.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, Cumin is kicked out of her boyfriend Mari’s studio after he falls for Janine, their landlord, and starts renting a closet in Maron’s bedroom – polyamorous Maron who is hooking up with Alix, whom Cumin lusts after. Dishevelled from medicines and medical scams, unmoored from the reality she once knew, she begins to crack – in more ways than she can imagine…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Exhilarating… this rewarding and uncompromising novel is distinguished by its deliriously wild writing. It’s impossible not to be swept up in Beilin’s wake.’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher’s Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e (starred)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Caren Beilin is one of the most bizarre and fearless writers of her generation’ Catherine Lacey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘I was instantly won over by Beilin’s writing – so funny and serious and playful. Her books have the natural authority of those artworks that are strictly, rigorously themselves’ Sheila Heti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘An absurdist masterpiece. Nothing, just nothing, is as wild, outrageous and free as \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSea, Poison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e’ Amina Cain\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288753488108,"sku":"9781398559820","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8e84ef1104a60fe3559a7f6219c6eaaa.jpg?v=1770604784","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sea-poison-by-caren-beilin-9781398559820","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}