{"id":3033,"date":"2022-03-10T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T19:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/?post_type=product&#038;p=3033"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:19:52","slug":"the-impossible-resurrection-of-grief-by-octavia-cade","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/index.php\/product\/the-impossible-resurrection-of-grief-by-octavia-cade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>About the Book<\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>IN A DYING WORLD, GRIEF HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN\u2026 <\/em><\/strong>With the collapse of ecosystems and the extinction of species comes the Grief: an unstoppable melancholia that ends in suicide. When Ruby\u2019s friend, mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef, succumbs to the Grief, the letters she leaves behind reveal the hidden world of the resurrected dead. The Tasmanian tiger, brought back from extinction in an isolated facility, is only the first\u2026 but rebirth is not always biological, and it comes with a price. As a scientist, Ruby resists the Grief by focusing her research on resilient jellyfish, but she can\u2019t avoid choosing which side she\u2019s on. How can she fight against the dead and the forces behind them when doing so risks her home, her life, and the entire biosphere?<\/p>\n<p>The cover, by Canadian artist and designer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/racheldesign.myportfolio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Rachel Lobbenberg (opens in a new tab)\">Rachel Lobbenberg<\/a>, features two thylacines (an extinct Australian marsupial also known as the Tasmanian tiger), a spray of Australian flora, and little New Zealand rock wrens flying about over a distressed velvet background.<\/p>\n<h4>About the Author<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Octavia Cade<\/strong>\u00a0is a New Zealand writer with a PhD in science communication. She attended Clarion West 2016, has won three Sir Julius Vogel awards for speculative fiction, and is a Bram Stoker nominee. She was the 2020 writer in residence at Massey University, where she wrote\u00a0<em>The Impossible Resurrection of Grief<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h5>Learn More<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/index.php\/praise-for-impossible-resurrection-of-grief\/\">Read more praise<\/a>\u00a0for <em>The Impossible Resurrection of Grief<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/index.php\/an-excerpt-from-the-impossible-resurrection-of-grief\/\">Watch Octavia Cade read<\/a> from\u00a0<em>The Impossible Resurrection of Grief<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Also Available from:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Your local independent bookstore<\/li>\n<li>Bookshop.org (<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/the-impossible-resurrection-of-grief\/9781777091767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Weightless Books Ebooks (<a href=\"https:\/\/weightlessbooks.com\/format\/the-impossible-resurrection-of-grief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Barnes and Noble (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-impossible-resurrection-of-grief-octavia-cade\/1138627612?ean=9781777091767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Alibris (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alibris.com\/The-Impossible-Resurrection-of-Grief-Octavia-Cade\/book\/49210188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Amazon.com (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Impossible-Resurrection-Grief-Octavia-Cade\/dp\/1777091764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>) | Amazon.ca (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Impossible-Resurrection-Grief-Octavia-Cade\/dp\/1777091764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>) | Amazon.co.uk (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Impossible-Resurrection-Grief-Octavia-Cade\/dp\/1777091764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A chilling novella about extinction, grief, and what we hold onto when the world falls apart. Winner of the 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella\/Novelette.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cCade\u2019s strength shines in her beautiful descriptions \u2026 This thoughtful work is a reminder of humanity\u2019s connection and responsibility to the natural world.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-1-77709-176-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cUncanny, unsettling, brilliant, etcetera; as well as the thylacines there are jellyfish, robots, rock wrens, rats, and a new kind of psychological devastation that flourishes and evolves as everything else collapses. Called simply \u201cGrief\u201d, it is contagious, and hard to spot, and it feels like a creature that\u2019s already here.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Catherine Woulfe, <em>The Spinoff Book Report<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/thespinoff.co.nz\/books\/20-03-2021\/the-spinoff-book-report-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 12px;\">Customers outside of CA\/US: due to supply chain issues, worldwide shipping of print books is currently slow and expensive. We recommend shopping with your local indie bookstore. If you do order a print book from us, it will be shipped from the closest print facility to you and will therefore be printed on standard paper and will not include the goodies we send with CA\/US orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"product_cat":[61,70,45,55,56,50,53],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade &#8902; Stelliform Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about Octavia Cade&#039;s novella, THE IMPOSSIBLE RESURRECTION OF GRIEF. 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