Description
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.
Author: Miranda Mellis
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781643622750
ISBN10: 1643622757
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Nature & the Environment
- Fiction | Feminist
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.
Author: Miranda Mellis
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781643622750
ISBN10: 1643622757
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Nature & the Environment
- Fiction | Feminist
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.