{"product_id":"mulholland-dive-9781960988553","title":"Mulholland Dive","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It was the year us girls had a feminine desire to go missing,\" Vanessa Roveto, acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003ebodys\u003c\/i\u003e, begins her book within the remnants of a car crash, fragmenting identity, grief, and heart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the death of daddy, the \"I\" soon meshes with whatever and whomever she comes into contact with--strangers, actors, a Covid crush. She absorbs these people and objects, dispersing them into the Southern California landscape, the Uncanny Valley, warping time and naturalizing dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDocumenting a period of both global and personal loss, Roveto crafts a book-length poem that weighs heavier than the Ego in L.A. Splintering Self between Other and palm trees in the summer heat, \u003ci\u003eMulholland Dive\u003c\/i\u003e spins a Lynchian setting within a feminine eruption of alluring language, fluked romance, and the aftershocks of grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVanessa Roveto is the author of two books of poetry, \u003ci\u003ebodys \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e a women\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novella The \u003ci\u003eValley (a void)\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Clash Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51552901398802,"sku":"9781960988553","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_af093ccc-d391-4401-a625-f76aad0aae46.jpg?v=1754911204","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mulholland-dive-9781960988553","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}