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From the Caves
Thea Prieto
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Beschreibung
Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age; Tie, pregnant and grieving; Mark, a young man poised to assume primacy; and Teller, an elder, holder of stories. As the devastating heat of summer grows, so does the poison in Teller’s injured leg and the danger of Tie’s imminent labor, food and water dwindling while the future becomes increasingly dependent on the words Sky gleans from the dead, stories pieced together from recycled knowledge, fragmented histories, and half-buried creation myths. From the Caves presents the past, present, and future in tandem, reshaping ancient and modern ideas of death and motherhood, grief and hope, endings and beginnings.
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<p>“<em>From the Caves</em> hits like a postapocalyptic punch in the gut. It’s both a devastating cautionary tale and a terrible and beautiful testimony for the power of stories to transcend through impossible grief.”—<strong>Doug Lawson</strong>, author of <em>Bigfoots in Paradise</em></p> <p>Featured in The Masters Review Blog:<a href="https://mastersreview.com/a-bakers-dozen-of-books-were-looking-forward-to-in-the-second-half-of-2021/">https://mastersreview.com/a-bakers-dozen-of-books-were-looking-forward-to-in-the-second-half-of-2021/</a></p> <p>“As parched as J. G. Ballard’s <em>The Burning World</em>, <em>From the Caves</em> is about persistence in the face of collapse and disaster, the roles we fall into in relation to one another, and how we rise to meet new roles when necessity demands. An oddly hopeful yet quietly brutal book about living past the end of the world.”—<strong>Brian Evenson</strong>, author of <em>Song for the Unraveling of the World</em></p> <p>“<em>From the Caves</em> is a striking, suspenseful novella about calamity, transformation, and the stories we tell to keep ourselves alive. Thea Prieto’s haunting vision resonates evocatively with our own present and future on an imperiled Earth.”—<strong>Leni Zumas</strong>, author of <em>Red Clocks</em></p> <p>“<em>From the Caves</em> shows us our past and our future in the same breath. Guiding us on a compelling exploration of the endurance of artifact, the tradition of storytelling, and the impermanence of the human body, Prieto is a writer to be reckoned with.”—<strong>Lily Brooks-Dalton</strong>, author of <em>Good Morning, Midnight</em></p> <p><br>"In Prieto’s trenchant debut, she describes the unforgiving elements of nature with beautiful prose: 'the suck of low tide holds pockets of noise—a hissing wind, the boom of brown ocean waves.' This is a gut punch of a dystopian novel."<span> <span>—<strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span>Article by author in <a href="https://www.pw.org/content/a_decade_of_women_who_submit"
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Family, wildfires, Memory, Death, Eulogy, Experimental, childbirth, revelation, science fiction, Coming-of-age, Motherhood, Grief, Stories-within-stories, Dystopia, Survival, Novella, Creation myths, Post-apocalyptic, Language, Mythology, climate change, mother goddess, Literary fiction, Environmental literature, Horror, Loss