{"product_id":"acacia-a-book-of-wonders-a-novel-9781680032987","title":"Acacia, a Book of Wonders: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcacia, a Book of Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Petra Caldwell, the matriarch of Acacia, a new religious movement located in a densely wooded East Texas thicket. In this non-space of surreal and mystical happenings, the saints of Acacia worship birds as prophetic emblems and prepare for a prophesied end-times event known as The Commotions. All the while, Petra wrestles against the wiles set for her by her predecessor, the Prophetess Mother Salome Nightingale. \u003ci\u003eAcacia, a Book of Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e affords a unique vantage point in cult fiction: a narrative told from the perspective of the group’s leader.\u003cbr\u003e ...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom “Poisoned and Indisposed”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst my best judgment, I returned to the sensations of the orb. The winged chair. I could build this. This was not beyond me. The gallery in The Pear House, explaining so much hidden lore of Acacia. I would commission these portents be created by the careful brush of Mya. And the chariot, borne by vultures. I would construct this.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tangle of nervous systems and fever dreams that pulse within \u003ci\u003eAcacia\u003c\/i\u003e reminds me of an old hymn dipped in technicolor and then broadcast through the speakers of a two-toned Lincoln Continental. Church is where you make it. Shall we gather within the ruination to practice resurrection? Acacia suggests that if we do, we might experience salvation on terms we never imagined. Vincent James has written a mesmerizing novel teeming with gorgeous sentences. It’s the sort of remarkable book that manufactures its own uncanny light by which to read.\" —Selah Saterstrom, author of \u003ci\u003eIdeal Suggestions\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSlab\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAcacia\u003c\/i\u003e, by Vincent James, is exactly what it claims to be, \u003ci\u003ea book of wonders.\u003c\/i\u003e Strange, moving, extraordinary, this is work built with serious brio and serious craft. James can spin a fabulous yarn \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e he can write a hell of a sentence: it doesn't get any better than that.\" —Laird Hunt, author of \u003ci\u003eZorrie\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNeverhome\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this incantatory and perilous epic, apocalypse comes to be redefined, not as an ending of the world or even simply as divine unveiling, but the arrival of a kind of knowing instigated by the imminent grief and perilous fear of finality, that is, this is a novel about lostness, about fear, about worlding outwards against the confines of treacherous boundaries. James’s lush language feels like a series of invocations, the reaching and desire described in the words resonant and enacted by the gathering of energies by the novel’s own visionary musicality. As I read, I can feel these words wanting to be recited, caught in my throat like spells. This book is magical and a revelation.\" —Janice Lee, author of \u003ci\u003eSeparation Anxiety\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImagine a Death\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e East Texas 1980s \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Meditations of Fontaine Caldwell containing the true account of her captivity, as written in her little books \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book I: THE WRETCHED ESCAPES HER SHED \u0026amp; RECOVERED by the SON \u0026amp; THE SEED of THOUGHTFUL REVENGE \u0026amp; LIGHTNING and the TREES \u0026amp; THE BLOSSOMS on HER BODY \u0026amp; THE SECOND REMOVE \u0026amp; THE WATCHING NIGHTINGALE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book II: THE SWARM THICKENING \u0026amp; A FEEDING \u0026amp; INCAPABLE OF PROPHECY, A FOURTH REMOVE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book III: THE DEEP INLET \u0026amp; CITIES in the SKY \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book IV: BLUE TRUCK \u0026amp; A WOUNDING \u0026amp; THE LABRYINTHINE THICKET \u0026amp; THE NIGHTINGALE’S TONGUE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book V: AWAKENED, HAVING BEEN INJURED \u0026amp; A BODILY DESOLATION \u0026amp; FED WITH NAILS \u0026amp; THE CONFESSOR \u0026amp; ANOTHER REMOVE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book VI: THE CHILDHOOD BEDROOM of the NIGHTINGALE \u0026amp; CONTEMPLATION and FLIGHT \u0026amp; WHEN THE WINDS DESCEND, a BOY is BORN \u0026amp;WITNESS TO THE FETTERS \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book VII: RETURNED to the SHED \u0026amp; THE OPEN ROOF \u0026amp; THE WORMS \u0026amp; THE BEGINNINGS of DESCENT \u0026amp; THE ADVENT of the VULTURES \u0026amp; A HEAVENLY REMOVE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book VIII: RETURNED to the PEAR HOUSE \u0026amp; POWER in the WORD \u0026amp; THE DESTRUCTION of the PEAR HOUSE and the DECAY of the NIGHTINGALE \u0026amp; THE BIRTH of a HERALD \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book IX: THE RESTORATION of the NIGHTINGALE \u0026amp; HER AVATAR TRUSTED YET \u0026amp; THE GENESIS of the ORB \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book X: A WALK in the NIGHTINGALE’S GARDEN \u0026amp; THE RAPTURE \u0026amp; A VERY PUBLIC DALLIANCE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book XI: TO ERADICATE ANIMUS \u0026amp; THE JUDGMENT of the SON \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book XII: THE MATRICES of LOSS \u0026amp; THE ORIGIN of ACACIA \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Land \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Founding \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Root \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Return to the Thicket \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Death of the Patriarch \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Hermitage no Longer \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Tree \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Building of Acacia \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book XIII: ASCENT of POWER and the CLEANSING of the CHAPEL \u0026amp; THE HIDDEN ROOM of the NIGHTINGALE \u0026amp; THE FEEDING of the BIRDS \u0026amp; A SUSPICION of FOES \u0026amp; A CHEST \u0026amp; RECONSTRUCTION of the CHAPEL \u0026amp; A FEAST in the PEAR HOUSE \u0026amp; THE SHORN BEAK \u0026amp; THE DEFIANCE of the BOY \u0026amp; BANISHED to the YARD \u0026amp; A PRESCIENT ABSENCE \u0026amp; DEVOTION of the SAINTS \u0026amp; THE BOY and his MOTHER MAULED \u0026amp; THE CHAIR of the HERALD \u0026amp; EASEMENTS \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book XIV: RETIRING from the STORY \u0026amp; THE BEDROOM of the HERALD \u0026amp; THE CONSUMPTION of my LITTLE BOOKS \u0026amp; A NECESSARY SCOURGING \u0026amp; THE RESTORATION of the BOY’S MOTHER \u0026amp; BEHOLDING the ORB \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book XV: EVERY LIGHT LEFT LIT \u0026amp; WITNESS to his CAPTIVITY \u0026amp; THE COLLAR \u0026amp; THE ADVERSARY \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e BOOK XVI: BAFFLEMENT of the ORB \u0026amp; ESTABLISHING his COORDINATES \u0026amp; A VISITATION of HEAVEN \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e BOOK XVII: INTERPRETATION of TONGUES \u0026amp; MANAGING the GROUNDS of the ORB \u0026amp; CONFRONTATIONS with the ANTAGONIST \u0026amp; LABORING for SIGNS of HEAVEN’S MERCY \u0026amp; CAPRICIOUS WILL \u0026amp; A SHARING of DREAMS \u0026amp; THE CHURNING of MY BODY \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e BOOK XVIII: CONTINUED STUDY \u0026amp; A TEASE of the ROPE \u0026amp; DISCERNING the SPIRIT of the BOY \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e BOOK XIX: RETURNING to the ORB \u0026amp; AN INCREASE of RATIONS \u0026amp; A VISIT in the DEAD of NIGHT BEARING a GIFT of my OWN DESIGN \u0026amp; THE BLOOMS \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e BOOK XX: THE DAY PROPHESIED DRAWS NIGH \u0026amp; THE DESIGNS of a DEPLETED WILL \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e BOOK XXI: THE FLAGELLANTS \u0026amp; THE ASSUAGING of HEAVEN \u0026amp; A DAY of JUBILEE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e BOOK XXII: THE LOSS of MANY DEVOTED \u0026amp; A SCAPEGOAT to DRAW them OUT \u0026amp; DESCENT into the ORB \u0026amp; A JOINT VISITATION \u0026amp; THE UNION of HOUSES \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e HEAVEN \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e BOOK XXIII: POISONED and INDISPOSED \u0026amp; 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