My Volcano

* Winner of the Sator New Works Award.* New York Public Library's Best Books of 2022*Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction Books of 2022*2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, Longlist.*A Most Anticipated Book Lambda Literary, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Tor.com,The Chicago Review of Books,LGBTQReads, Ms. Magazine, The Mary SueMy Volcanois a kaleidoscopic portrait of a menagerie of characters, as they each undergo personal eruptions, while the Earth itself is constantly shifting.Parable, myth, science-fiction, eco-horror,My Volcanois a radical work of literary art, emerging as a subversive, intoxicating artistic statement by John Elizabeth Stintzi.On June 2, 2016, a protrusion of rock growing from the Central Park Reservoir is spotted by a jogger. Three weeks later, when it finally stops growing, its nearly two-and-a-half miles tall, and has been determined to be an active volcano.As the volcano grows and then looms over New York, an eight-year-old boy in Mexico City finds himself transported 500 years into the past, where he witnesses the fall of the Aztec Empire; a Nigerian scholar in Tokyo studies a folktale about a woman of fire who descends a mountain and destroys an entire village; a white trans writer in Jersey City struggles to write a sci-fi novel about a thriving civilization on an impossible planet; a nurse tends to Syrian refugees in Greece while grappling with the trauma of living through the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan; a nomadic farmer in Mongolia is stung by a bee, magically transforming him into a green, thorned, flowering creature that aspires to connect every living thing into its consciousness.With its riveting and audacious vision,My Volcanois a tapestry on fire, a distorted and cinematic new work from the fiercely talented John Elizabeth Stintzi.