The Lava in My Bones

A frustrated geologist studying global warming begins eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship. His sister is a high school girl who oozes honey through her pores that attracts hordes of bees and turns her into a social pariah. And their Pentecostal mother repeatedly calls on the Holy Spirit to rid her family of demons. This magic-realist novel combines elements of fairy tales, horror movies, and romances to create a comic, hallucinatory celebration of excess and sensuality. Barry Webster's first book, The Sound of All Flesh, won the ReLit Award for story collections.