Junebat
- 120 páginas
- 5 horas de lectura
From award winning author John Elizabeth Stintzi, Junebat is a form- and gender-disrupting debut collection that grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming.
John Elizabeth Stintzi Libros
John Elizabeth Stintzi es un autor no binario cuya prosa y poesía profundizan en las complejidades de la identidad humana y la conexión con la tierra. Su obra se caracteriza por una aguda introspección y un lenguaje poético que explora las intrincadas relaciones entre los individuos y el mundo que los rodea. A través de imágenes evocadoras y metáforas originales, examinan temas como la memoria, la pérdida y la búsqueda del propio lugar en un paisaje en constante cambio. La escritura de Stintzi resuena en los lectores por su profundidad emocional y su sofisticación literaria.
Vanishing Monuments
- 304 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
A brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia.
On June 2, 2016, a jogger in Central Park discovers a mass of stone in the reservoir, which soon transforms into a towering stratovolcano. This bizarre occurrence aligns with a surge of strange global phenomena. The narrative weaves mythic elements with stark realism, capturing the sensation of living in a world on fire. A diverse cast experiences personal and collective upheavals: an eight-year-old boy in Mexico City travels back 500 years to witness the fall of the Aztec Empire; a folktale scholar in Tokyo investigates a tale of a woman descending a mountain to wreak havoc; a white trans writer in Jersey City struggles to craft a sci-fi novel about an impossible civilization; a nurse with Doctors Without Borders aids Syrian refugees in Greece while grappling with the trauma of surviving a bombing in Afghanistan; and a nomadic herder in Mongolia transforms into a green, flowering creature determined to cleanse the planet's pollution. With its audacious structure and poetic prose, this novel presents a fiery tapestry of interconnected stories. Critics have praised it as a contemporary folktale that captures the tumultuous present, blending history, myth, and vision in a way that is both gripping and haunting.