Summary
A darkly funny, electrifying tale of polyamory, medical malfeasance and Carrie Bradshaw, written with utterly singular flair and style.
Cumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia – a city of hospitals – who works at the upscale market Sea & Poison, and is navigating the onset of an autoimmune condition. To start a course of medicine that might help, an eye exam is required, which leads to a nightmarish laser eye surgery. The laser shoots in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398559820 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398559822 |
| Author: | Caren Beilin |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scribner UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 16 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 114g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
‘Exhilarating… this rewarding and uncompromising novel is distinguished by its deliriously wild writing. It’s impossible not to be swept up in Beilin’s wake.’ Publisher’s Weekly (starred)
‘No-one is doing it like Caren Beilin’ Daisy Lafarge
‘Caren Beilin is one of the most bizarre and fearless writers of her generation’ Catherine Lacey
‘I was instantly won over by Beilin’s writing – so funny and serious and playful. Her books have the natural authority of those artworks that are strictly, rigorously themselves’ Sheila Heti
‘An absurdist masterpiece. Nothing, just nothing, is as wild, outrageous and free as Sea, Poison’ Amina Cain
‘Beilin, wizard that she is, manages to make you laugh even at the darkest of scenarios.’ LitHub
‘A deeply weird read - unsettling and funny in turn’ Frieze
About The Author
Caren Beilin
Caren Beilin was born in Philadelphia in 1983. She is the author of the novel Revenge of the Scapegoat, which won the Vermont Book Award for Fiction. Her other books are Blackfishing the IUD, Spain, The University of Pennsylvania, and Americans, Guests, or Us. Sea, Poison is her most recent novel. She lives in Cleveland and Philadelphia and teaches at Case Western Reserve University.
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