A novel of revolutionary transition that achieves the impossible: not only charting the transformation of the mechanics of society, but the liberation of consciousness itself. Sentence by sentence, and in the impossible and enthralling architectures of each page, Miranda Mellis's Crocosmia is a treasure.

Jordy Rosenberg

Wildly hopeful and ecstatic with language, Crocosmia offers a yearning, visionary dose of eschatological surrealism. With both care and verve, Miranda Mellis mixes poetry, philosophy, memory, and imagination to tell a story of intergenerational debts and obligations in the face of radical social transformation. Crocosmia glows in the night.

Roy Scranton

What if art could save the world? What if all we had to do was let it? Two women, mother and daughter, move to the woods to escape dark forces that plague the mother’s dreams. What follows is an incisive and beautiful meditation on imagination and intention in the Anthropocene. An apocalypse narrative infused with hope and a domestic story that shines a light on our collective power, Crocosmia functions in conversation with Jenny Offill’s Weather and Debbie Urbanski’s After World while existing in a universe all its own. This novel is a revelation.

Sarah LaBrie