Lemonade (Paperback)

Mark Traid

ISBN 10: 1069776130 / ISBN 13: 9781069776136

Published by Disruptive Texts, 2026

About this Item

Paperback. Lemonade traces the quiet, unremarkable journey of a single lemon, following its passage from orchard to table and the many unseen hands it passes through. What begins as a simple observation unfolds into a reflective exploration of value, labour, and the meanings we attach to ordinary things. Each short chapter offers a minimalist vignette-precise, understated, and centred on how significance is created, transferred, or lost through everyday systems.Rather than building a conventional plot, the book invites the reader into a slow, contemplative space where attention itself becomes the narrative engine. The lemon becomes a lens: a way of seeing how work is hidden, how perception shapes desire, and how something grown with care can be overlooked or discarded without a second thought.Written in spare, economical prose, Lemonade sits at the intersection of literary fiction and philosophical inquiry. It rewards reflection, asking the reader to consider how small objects and small moments quietly structure the human search for meaning. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lemonade (Paperback)
• Publisher: Disruptive Texts
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1069776130
• ISBN 13: 9781069776136
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Salisbury, Mike
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

An understated existential inquiry, Lemonade unfolds through a series of interconnected vignettes into a quiet meditation on meaning and worth—how we decide what matters, and how we make sense of what we decide.

At the centre of the book is a single lemon.

From orchard to highway, market, kitchen, bar, and finally back to the earth, it passes through different hands and different ways of seeing.

Part philosophical novel, part contemporary fable, Lemonade explores the private philosophies embedded in everyday life and the limits of our own perception.

Quiet, spare, and deceptively simple, it asks how much of the world we truly perceive—and how much we construct from the small portion available to us.

About the Author

Traid's illustrations mirror his prose: pared down, reflective, and quietly philosophical. He uses abstraction and tonal geometry to draw attention to the unnoticed details of daily life, allowing ordinary objects to feel symbolic without losing their physical presence.