{"product_id":"from-the-valley-volume-1","title":"From The Valley: Volume 1","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA grandmaster comes down from the mountain to heal more people. He gets called an asshole within an hour, mugged within a week, and spends the next twenty-one years learning to be a butcher. There are also protein pancakes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is Volume One.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the Valley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a chapbook series about the gap between mastery in one terrain and competence in another. The series cadence is irregular by design. This is the only volume with a foundation — future volumes start where they start.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe companion publication \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the Mountain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, free on Substack, carries the considered work: slow, patient writing turned over until it can be published. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the Valley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e carries the live work: the fumbles, the noticing, the things that won't survive editing for a decade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten for readers who have been told they have command of one domain and have discovered, on entering another, that command doesn't transfer. The writer is the primary fool of every issue. That is the contract.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree movements, 24 pages, 4×6 chapbook. Volume Two will be about something smaller.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914167804095,"sku":"7daa4ae4-02f3-4c5a-8bc4-567116cb375c","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/0eea0162f9f2b65aa81285053eacbb40.jpg?v=1785055397","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/from-the-valley-volume-1","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}