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Crocosmia
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- Book Synopsis
- A revelatory novel (or parable) of art, adventure, and radical politics, set in a world on the precipice. A philosophical fable, Crocosmia centers on Maya as she recollects the "great turning"-a moment of radical social and ecological change effected in part by the art of her mother, Jane. As Maya recalls her upbringing-from a commune run by anarchist nuns to a time of rural isolation before her mother's disappearance-Mellis's prose gorgeously conjures a life defined by revolutionary thought and action and the interplay and tension between family life and political commitment. At once a fantasy, a handbook to political thought, and a work of eco-fiction, this lush novel meditates on how, in a world on the precipice, dreams of communal care can bloom.
- About The Author
- Miranda Mellis is the author of Demystifications (2021); The Instead; The Spokes (2012); None of This Is Real (2012); The Revisionist (2007). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and Millay Colony. She received the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, the Michael S. Harper Praxis Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She grew up in San Francisco and now lives in Olympia, Washington.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781643622750
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Nightboat Books, (18 September 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 203 x 152 mm
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