{"product_id":"9781621051275","title":"Basal Ganglia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBasal Ganglia\u003c\/i\u003e casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.\" - \u003cb\u003eSERGIO DE LA PAVA\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Naked Singularity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Matthew Revert is one of the visionaries. What else can you say?\" - \u003cb\u003eSCOTT MCCLANAHAN\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHill William\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCrapalachia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs teenagers, two lovers, Rollo and Ingrid, escape the world as it is known to live underground in a sprawling pillow fort that mirrors the structure of the human brain. Construction of the fort takes 25 years and once complete, their life exists to honor the fort in all it requires. \u003ci\u003eBasal Ganglia\u003c\/i\u003e begins countless years after they have become enslaved to the fort process. Rollo and Ingrid have lost any connection to their pasts and each other. Nothing exists beyond the patterns required by the fort. In an effort to become more than stasis, Ingrid expresses her desire to have a baby. Not wanting to subject another human to their strange world, she decides she will knit the baby using materials Rollo gathers from the fort. The emergence of this baby leads to paranoia between Rollo and Ingrid with both believing the other means the child harm. Within the confines of their cloistered world, the two engage in psychological warfare, desperately searching for a conclusion they don't understand. As a result, they will find connection with their past, each other and the true nature of their identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eraserhead Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041976533232,"sku":"9781621051275","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781621051275_p0.jpg?v=1763859632","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781621051275","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}