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Crocosmia
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ISBN10: 1643622757
ISBN13: 9781643622750
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: Aug 5 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781643622750
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: Aug 5 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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.
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.
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