Wild Mushrooms
A Novel
- Fiction
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2020
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Publisher's Description
“Do many young boys meet hermits in the forest, and trade mushrooms for wisdom?” Set amid the primeval forests of Eastern Poland, the avant-garde enclaves of Greenwich Village, and the long summer days of the San Juan Islands, Wild Mushrooms is the story of one man’s life, an artist called Eliasz, Ilyusha, and Elias at different points in his timeline. The narrative meanders fluidly between visions of the past—a small boy’s first memories of encountering the faith of his Russian grandmother—the obsessions and malignant thoughts which threaten to destroy a young man’s life, and the moment of personal theophany that brings an old man hope amid sorrow. Beauty, evil, worship, and hatred—monsters, dragons, and hermits in the woods—Wild Mushrooms is a journey of the mind and the soul, of decisive moments, and the insanity of true wisdom. 2022 IPPY bronze medal award winner in the Visionary Fiction category https://ippyawards.com/index.php
Endorsements (1)
“How can we tell the difference between what nourishes and what destroys? Between what’s worthy of being worshiped and what’s only a brilliant façade? In Wild Mushrooms, E. Piotrowicz examines these questions with nuance and candor through the journey of Elias, an artist who struggles to differentiate what is beautiful from what’s monstrous and what is generative from what’s deadly. The novel will inspire your mind and your spirit to test what is true.”
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