Description: * 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 Sue "I will read anything that comes from JES's twisted imagination and love it. This ingenious, insightful, unconventional and expansive eco-horror is no exception." --Karla J. Strand, Ms. Magazine "My Volcano, an ambitious, astonishing pageant of a book... This is also a book about contemporary estrangement and violence, about the wounds and hauntings of history, of climate collapse... I loved that the book felt like an explosive device injected into our current era--and into history itself--and detonated. I loved the bombast of the book, the feeling that I was tearing through time and space while reading it, the mystery of how all the pieces fit together, the remarkable and unrelenting presence of each rendered moment." --Lauren Markham, 2023 Tournament of Books (The Morning News) "There is nothing I can write about this book that will capture the whole of it. It is a piece of surreal and beautiful art that defines categorization and explanation. In June of 2016, a massive volcano begins growing in Central Park. From there, a disjointed but beautifully symphonic narrative emerges, as characters all over the world begin to experience strange events. Somehow, in writing about giant bugs and time travel and weird escape rooms and magical bees, Stintzi has hit on some essential truth about what it feels like to be a human on this bizarre, heartbreaking, ever-changing, impossible planet." --Laura Sackton, BookRiot "The premise of My Volcano is weird and wonderful: one day in 2016, a growth sprouts up in Central Park. Over the next few weeks, it gets bigger and bigger and is ultimately determined to be a volcano. Against this backdrop, Stintzi weaves a kaleidoscope of stories showing the mundane, momentous, and increasingly bizarre ways Manhattan's newest resident creeps into the lives of a variety of characters." --Allison McNearney, The Daily Beast "One of the most exhilarating [novels] I've read in years." --Abeni Jones, Autostraddle "A fever dream that whirs together homicide statistics from 2016 with an array of outlandish science fiction tropes. An allegory about the mutability of all things. An unsettling meditation on the 21st century's strange reality. An apocalyptic phantasmagoria where bizarre kaiju roam the lands and wreak havoc. A lyrical treatise on volcanoes as metaphors. A wild ride. Future students of My Volcano... will offer myriad theses about the true nature of the author's stupendous book. The unfettered abundance, uniqueness and irreducibility of My Volcano will likely encourage as many interpretations as the book has readers." --Brett Josef Grubisic, The Toronto Star

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