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SUMMARY:Book reading/discussion w Miranda Mellis
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Finnriver for a reading and discussion with Mir
 anda Mellis\, author of a recently published climate fiction novel\, 
 Crocosmia\; a revelatory novel (or parable) of art\, adventure\, and 
 radical politics\, set in a world on the precipice. \nA philosophical
  fable\, Crocosmia centers on Maya as she recollects the “great tu
 rning”—a moment of radical social and ecological change effected i
 n 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 b
 efore her mother’s disappearance—Mellis’s prose gorgeously conju
 res a life defined by revolutionary thought and action and the interpl
 ay and tension between family life and political commitment.\nAt once 
 a fantasy\, a handbook to political thought\, and a work of eco-fictio
 n\, this lush novel published by Nightboat Books\, meditates on how\,
  in a world on the precipice\, dreams of communal care can bloom.\nFin
 nriver co-founder Crystie Kisler will moderate the discussion with Mir
 anda and invites community members to order the book from a local book
 store (like Imprint or Winter Texts) and to join us for an important i
 nquiry into how art and the creative life can transform the future!\nM
 iranda Mellis is also the author of a book-length lyric essay The Re
 volutionary (forthcoming\, Nightboat Books 2027)\; three novellas\, 
 The Revisionist\, The Spokes\, and The Quarry\; and a short-story co
 llection\, None of This Is Real. Poetry and nonfiction books and chap
 books include Demystifications\, Unconsciousness Raising\, and Mate
 rialisms. She is the co-author of two books of dialogue: The Instea
 d with Emily Abendroth and Passing Through with Rick Moody (forthco
 ming from Solid Objects/ Wesleyan University Press\, 2027). With Tisa 
 Bryant and Kate Schatz\, she was a founding editor at The Encyclopedia
  Project. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Headlands Center 
 for the Arts and Millay Colony and has been the recipient of an NEH gr
 ant and the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. She grew up in San Francisco
  and now lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest where she is a pr
 ofessor at The Evergreen State College.  \nHer website: mirandamelli
 s.com. She has an intermittent Substack as well: https://youareinlove
 withtheimpossible.substack.com/
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