The pedestrian
List Price:
$17.95
| Expected release date is Jul 7th 2026 |
- Availability: Confirm prior to ordering
- Branding: minimum 50 pieces (add’l costs below)
- Check Freight Rates (branded products only)
Branding Options (v), Availability & Lead Times
- 1-Color Imprint: $2.00 ea.
- Promo-Page Insert: $2.50 ea. (full-color printed, single-sided page)
- Belly-Band Wrap: $2.50 ea. (full-color printed)
- Set-Up Charge: $45 per decoration
- Availability: Product availability changes daily, so please confirm your quantity is available prior to placing an order.
- Branded Products: allow 10 business days from proof approval for production. Branding options may be limited or unavailable based on product design or cover artwork.
- Unbranded Products: allow 3-5 business days for shipping. All Unbranded items receive FREE ground shipping in the US. Inquire for international shipping.
- RETURNS/CANCELLATIONS: All orders, branded or unbranded, are NON-CANCELLABLE and NON-RETURNABLE once a purchase order has been received.
Product Details
Author:
Valerie Hsiung
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Publisher:
Nightboat Books (July 7, 2026)
Imprint:
Nightboat Books
Release Date:
July 7, 2026
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781643623115
ISBN-10:
1643623117
Weight:
5.6oz
Dimensions:
5.25" x 8.25"
File:
CONSORTIUM-Metadata_Only_Consortium_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260417161631-20260417.xml
Folder:
CONSORTIUM
List Price:
$17.95
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
60
Case Pack:
64
As low as:
$15.44
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Overview
A poet’s novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror of displacement.
Emerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story, The pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes demand a more defective detective. To conjure the source of this text’s trauma, the poet becomes a ritual detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through distortion and echo—courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. An ill pastoral of displacement, The pedestrian turns domestic spaces into underworlds, the body of the exiled child into a prophetic threshold—it listens as much as it speaks, attuned to forces beyond itself.
