{"product_id":"crocosmia-9781643622750","title":"Crocosmia","description":"\u003cb\u003eA revelatory novel (or parable) of art, adventure, and radical politics, set in a world on the precipice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA philosophical fable, \u003ci\u003eCrocosmia\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiranda Mellis\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51552885080338,"sku":"9781643622750","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_13b71414-efca-4352-8a57-5feb4dcf5642.jpg?v=1754910471","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/crocosmia-9781643622750","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}