Webster writes halluncinatory prose with zany gusto. Lambda Literary A joyous fairytale about familial dysfunction and our connection to Mother Earth. Magical, compelling, electric, complex, troubling, and contradictory, The Lava in My Bones is a book that I will read repeatedly throughout my life, illuminating crap times and hard knocks with the seismically wild, deeply relevant and earnest irreverence of it all.
National Post The Lava in My Bones is, quite simply, a fabulous book. Review Quotes Webster has written a vast, exuberant and optimistic epic about the ebbs and flows of the lava-like oils that lubricate the worlds engine, emphasizing the transformative power of love. Barry Websters first book, The Sound of All Flesh, won the ReLit Award for story collections. Told in a lush baroque prose, this intense, extravagant magic-realist novel combines elements of fairy tales, horror movies, and romances to create a comic, hallucinatory celebration of excess and sensuality. The siblings are reunited on a ship bound for Europe where they hope to start a new life, but are unaware that their disguised mother is also on board and plotting to win back their souls, with the help of the Virgin Mary. Meanwhile, their obsessive Pentecostal mother repeatedly calls on the Holy Spirit to rid her family of demons. Back home, his young sister is a high-school girl who suddenly starts to ooze honey through her pores, an affliction that attracts hordes of bees as well as her male classmates but ultimately turns her into a social pariah. Book Synopsis A frustrated geologist studying global warming bes obsessed with eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship in Europe. About the Book An extravagant phantasia about a geologist who eats rocks and his sister who oozes honey and has sex with bees.
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