The Three Lives of Christina The Astonishing

Victoria Nelson’s limited-edition novel explores a post-apocalyptic future where civilization has collapsed and been forgotten across six generations. A young spiritual seeker from northern California undergoes a death experience that grants her supernatural abilities—flight, underwater respiration, invulnerability, precognition—mirroring the 12th-century Flemish saint Christina the Astonishing. Branded a freak rather than savior in the broken kingdoms of the western lands, Christina embarks on a violent, joyous quest through a dystopian landscape searching for enlightenment. This genre-warping gothic fiction blends speculative worldbuilding with spiritual seeking and transgressive elements, offering a darkly philosophical narrative about transcendence, bodily transformation, and disillusionment. Published by Strange Attractor Press as a signed, limited hardback with dust jacket and ribbon.

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