{"product_id":"9781566894319","title":"Among Strange Victims","description":"\"Brief, brilliantly written, and kissed by a sense of the absurd....like a much lazier, Mexico City version of Dostoevsky's Underground Man.\"—\u003cb\u003eJohn Powers, \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Daniel Saldaña París knows how to talk about those other tragedies populating daily life: a boring, unwanted marriage; mind numbing office work; family secrets. He builds on those bricks of tedium a greatly enjoyable and splendidly well-written suburban farce.” \u003cb\u003e—Yuri Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel. Earthy, playful, and sly, \u003ci\u003eAmong Strange Victims \u003c\/i\u003eis a psychedelic ode to the pleasures of not measuring up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Saldaña París \u003c\/b\u003e(born Mexico City, 1984) is an essayist, poet, and novelist whose work has been translated into English, French, and Swedish and anthologized, most recently in \u003ci\u003eMexico20: New Voices, Old Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e, published in the United Kingdom by Pushkin Press. \u003ci\u003eAmong Strange Victims \u003c\/i\u003eis his first novel to appear in the United States. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176185577712,"sku":"9781566894319","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566894319_p0.jpg?v=1763790342","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566894319","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}