The Lava In My Bones

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The Lava in My Bones tells the story of a bizarre and dysfunctional family undone by their deeply religious roots. When a gay geologist becomes obsessed with eating rocks and his teenage sister begins oozing honey from her pores, their fanatical Pentecostal mother cannot cope and calls upon the Holy Spirit over and over again in an attempt to drive out her children's 'demons'. In hopes of starting a new and better life, the siblings board a ship bound for Europe. Little do they know their mother is also there with a plot to win back their souls.

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Webster has written a vast, exuberant and optimistic epic about the ebbs and flows of the lava-like oils that lubricate the world's engine, emphasizing the transformative power of love. --National Post

The Lava in My Bones is, quite simply, a fabulous book ... "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. --Lambda Literary

A joyous fairytale about familial dysfunction and our connection to Mother Earth. Webster writes halluncinatory prose with zany gusto ... This is an exhuberantly written novel. --Quill and Quire (STARRED REVIEW)

Author Bio

Barry Webster: Barry Webster's first book, The Sound of All Flesh, won the ReLit Award for best short-story collection in 2005. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, the CBC-Quebec Prize, and the Hugh MacLennan Award. Originally from Toronto, he currently lives in East Montreal.