{"product_id":"books-pop-song-by-larissa-pham","title":"Pop Song","description":"Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book  '...I don't know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me. How to un-melt the melted? How to turn the ground powder back into a person? This idea points to a knowledge that I don't have: how to love without losing the self.'  Plumbing the well of culture for clues about love and loss - from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde - this brilliant work of debut nonfiction explores the state of falling in love, whether with a painting or a person.  Pham creates a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy, triumphant in its vulnerability and restlessness. Pop Song is a book about distances: the miles we travel to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed. Here is a map to all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670706086161,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788168021.jpg?v=1781512235","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-pop-song-by-larissa-pham","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}