{"product_id":"my-volcanobooks","title":"My Volcano","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Fiction Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe brilliant new novel from the fiercely talented author of \u003ci\u003eVanishing Monuments\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOn the morning of June 2, 2016, a jogger in Central Park notices a mass of stone in the centre of the reservoir, a mass that - three weeks later - will have grown into an active stratovolcano nearly two and a half miles tall. This inexplicable event seems to coincide with an escalation of strange phenomena happening around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \r\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Karen Tei Yamashita and Haruki Murakami and fans of David Mitchell's \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e and Olga Tokarczuk's \u003ci\u003eFlights, My Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e sets the mythic and absurd against the starkly realistic, attempting to portray what it feels like to live in a burning world stricken numb.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e is a pre-apocalyptic vision following a global and diverse cast of characters, each experiencing private and collective eruptions: an eight-year-old boy in Mexico City finds himself 500 years in the past, where he lives through the fall of the Aztec Empire; a folktale scholar in Tokyo studies a story with indeterminate origins about a woman coming down a mountain to destroy villages and towns; a white trans writer living in Jersey City struggles to write a sci-fi novel about a thriving civilization on an impossible planet; a nurse with Doctors without Borders works with Syrian refugees in Greece as she tries to grapple with the trauma of surviving an American bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan; a nomadic herder in Mongolia is stung by a bee and finds himself transformed into a green, thorned, flowering creature that aims to cleanse the world’s most polluted places on its path toward assimilating every living thing on Earth into its consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \r\n\u003cp\u003eWith audacious structure and poetic prose, \u003ci\u003eMy Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e is an electrifying tapestry on fire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stintzi, John Elizabeth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47143470563552,"sku":"","price":14.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2888310f-8b4b-4516-867b-a69d55b29447.jpg?v=1742065892","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/my-volcanobooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}