Equal parts modern myth, warning, prophecy, amplification, dream, reckoning, and rebalancing, Presence is more than an invitation to be present, but an invitation to embody all presents simultaneously, to shape-shift at all levels, and awaken into the fact that the past of our future is the present, and our presence is what will ultimately change everything. Iijima is a prophetic, attuned, ultra-aware writer. This novel doesn't simply speculate on the future, it expands the present moment into a profound spaciousness where understanding at its deepest level is itself taken apart and re-photosynthesized. What is everything we are connected to? And what is everything we have lost, continue to lose? The novel tells us: 'We are splintered fragments of a larger whole that is undergoing a vast metamorphosis,' and the text indeed reflects as one jewel of Indra's net that reflects every possible reality and also very specifically this one, one in which we survive catastrophe to find that joy and desire yet coexist in the cracks of our judgments and fears. Presence is aware of time as kaleidoscopic, waveform, and like any great work of art should, this text will rearrange every atom in your being until you, too, evaporate and become air for bodies to breathe or soil for plants to root in.