Crocosmia

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 by her mother, Jane’s, art. 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

• Authors: Miranda Mellis
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 05.08.2025
• EAN: 9781643622750
• ISBN: 978-1-64362-275-0
• No. of pages: 120
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk, Fiction: general & literary, Speculative fiction, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Feminism & feminist theory, Intergenerational relationships: advice & issues, Intergenerational Relationships, Fiction: general and literary, Feminism and feminist theory, FICTION / Feminist, Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues, Environmentalist thought and ideology, FICTION / Nature & the Environment