The Lava in My Bones
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary, Fiction & Literature, LGBT, Gay, Literary
| Author: | Barry Webster | ISBN: | 9781551524795 |
| Publisher: | Arsenal Pulp Press | Publication: | September 11, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Arsenal Pulp Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Barry Webster |
| ISBN: | 9781551524795 |
| Publisher: | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Publication: | September 11, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
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.
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.
