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The Lava in My Bones

The Lava in My Bones

Webster, Barry

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FantasyGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1551524783
ISBN13: 9781551524788
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: Oct 16 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards, Triangle Awards

A frustrated geologist studying global warming becomes obsessed with eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship in Europe. Back home, his young sister is a high-school girl who suddenly starts to ooze honey through her pores, an affliction that attracts hordes of bees as well as her male classmates but ultimately turns her into a social pariah. Meanwhile, their obsessive Pentecostal mother repeatedly calls on the Holy Spirit to rid her family of demons. The siblings are reunited on a ship bound for Europe where they hope to start a new life, but are unaware that their disguised mother is also on board and plotting to win back their souls, with the help of the Virgin Mary.

Told in a lush baroque prose, this intense, extravagant magic-realist novel combines elements of fairy tales, horror movies, and romances to create a comic, hallucinatory celebration of excess and sensuality.

Barry Webster's first book, The Sound of All Flesh, won the ReLit Award for story collections.

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