River Woman: A Novel

Book Description

In an unforgettable debut, Donna Hemans crafts a haunting novel of promises kept and promises broken, exploring the unyielding bonds joining mother and child -- bonds that neither time nor betrayal can sever.

As she washes her laundry in the river, Kelithe is startled from her daydreams by the sound of women screaming. It is not until she sees a small body in the shallow water that she realizes what has happened. Her young son, Timothy, has drowned in the Rio Minho.

The women of Standfast, Jamaica, whisper that she stood and watched Timothy die so that she could seize her chance to join her mother in America. Numb with grief, Kelithe lacks the strength to confront them. She can only wait for the funeral. And for her mother to come stand by her at last.

It is into this cauldron of guilt, grief, and suspicion that Sonya returns to bury the grandson she has never seen. Fifteen years ago, promising to send for her five-year-old daughter soon, soon, Sonya set off for America. Year after year, she struggled to get settled enough to do right by Kelithe. But even as Sonya married and had a second daughter, Kelithe grew to womanhood under her grandmother's care, found fleeting love in a stranger's arms, and had a shame-filled pregnancy of her own. And when Sonya was finally ready, there was room only for Kelithe. Timothy would have to stay behind. Kelithe would have to abandon him as she herself had been abandoned. But Sonya would send for him soon, soon.

What really happened at the Rio Minho? It is a question Sonya cannot ask, and an accusation Kelithe will not answer. And it lies at the heart of this shattering novel. In spare, powerful prose, Donna Hemans lays bare the human heart, and the many facets of truth.

Customer Reviews:

A good read.......2006-11-06

River Woman was very interesting. At times I thought it was slow moving and it was hard to tell sometimes whom was talking. After a while I wanted to stop reading it because I thought it wasn't moving fast enough but somehow the characters drew me in. I wanted to continue reading to find out if Kelithe allowed her son to drown. This book is very sad just reading about Kelithe's mother did not stand by her or feel like she was her daughter. Her mother Sonya is a hypocrite because she attempted an abortion when she was pregnant with Kelithe. It made me wonder, why couldn't Sonya show her daughter any love? And the reaction of the town was just aweful but this book made me think. This is not a book for entertainment but for thinking and seeing a trajedy from a different perspective.

If someone is interested in a funny and entertaining book this one is not it. This is a riveting book that takes you places where most of us have never been.

Simply Marvelous.......2005-08-12

I loved the story, although very sad. The language is simple, lyrical and beautiful.
The death of Timothy, Kelithe's son highlights the dilemma that every mother could face. I guess society expects mothers to support their children, guilty or not guilty. I have seen mothers of serial killers, murderers and rapists standing behind their sons/daughters and being present during court proceedings. What does it take for a mother to defend her child?
This is a good debut by Donna Hemans and I look forward to her new novel

Innocent Until Proven Guilty.......2003-05-06

"The people saying she watch the baby drown to get the chance to go a foreign." In Donna Hemans' debut novel RIVER WOMAN, the townspeople of Standfast, Jamaica cry in outrage as 20 year-old mother Kelithe Williams remains free after she allegedly observed her three-year old son, Timothy, drown in the Rio Minho River. Set in a rural community of Jamaica, the citizens of Standfast (stand fast) mourn, riot, protest and in some instances attempt to stone the main character Kelithe, in order to receive justice for a crime they feel has been committed.

Kelithe's mother, Sonya receives news in Brooklyn, NY of her
grandson's tragic demise and her daughter's rumored
incrimination. It has been fifteen years since she last laid eyes on her daughter with a promise of "soon-soon I come for you." Three weeks before Timothy's death, Sonya sends for Kelithe, but with one exception; Timothy must stay behind. With searing questions, Sonya returns to her homeland-to bury a grandchild she never knew and face a daughter she abandoned
long, long ago.

We read Kelithe's painful story as she sorrowfully retreats within herself, never fully mourning the loss of her beloved son, and Sonya's quest for answers as the "country women" relate the purported crime. What really happened that day at the Rio Minho River? Could a mother be guilty of such an act? Could Sonya be partly to blame?

RIVER WOMAN is a mesmerizing narrative, filled with heartrending

emotion of a child's endless quest for her mother's love and
acceptance, and a community's cry for justice . Donna Hemans
expertly intertwines Jamaica's patois with folklore adding credence to this fascinating tale. At times, I found myself laying the book aside as I shed tears of sorrow for the main character, and outrage at a mother's lack of solace. Donna Hemans has placed her mark in literary fiction with this lyrical debut novel!

Reviewed by Nicki Lancaster
APOOO BookClub

Forced Into Action.......2002-11-12

River Woman is a haunting account at one woman's pain of lost love and an entire town's pain of justice denied. Kelithe is a nineteen year old woman whose son, Timothy, drowns in the Rio Minho River as his mother washed laundry. The other women at the river say that Kelithe stood by and let her son drown so that she could go "foreign" with her mother; a mother that left her in Standfast, Jamaica fifteen years prior.

Enter Sonya, Kelithe's mother, who arrives back in Standfast for the wake. Kelithe denies her role in her son's drowning, while Sonya contemplates her daughter's role by shifting back and forth between blaming and not blaming her and listening to the natives' account of the drowning.

The uniqueness of this story comes in the form of Kelithe and Sonya's contemplation through the reader only. Never do they deny or blame each other verbally for the drowning, the love denied, the false promises or the betrayal. The river and river women are symbolic as they represent all that Standfast has endured since Sonya was a young girl in Standfast and before. This incident forces the town into action and produces emotions that the island of Jamaica has never seen by the residents of Standfast.

Written in a very lyrical tone, River Woman is a novel that will have you contemplating the ramifications of Sonya's actions fifteen years prior and her actions in the present. This is a sad account that leaves you wondering what exactly happened at the river that day and why.
Reviewed by Dawn R. Reeves, Apooo BookClub

Riveting!!! Could not put it down........2002-10-23

I think Donna Hemans did a masterful job with this novel. I picked it up and was unable to put it down until I finished it. The storytelling is wonderful and the character portrayal was first-rate. I would recommend this book whole-heartedly. I am looking forward to Donna's next book.

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If it doesn't have punctuation in the title, it's not really Faulkner
Modernist Faulkner
"The Wild Palms"--used as a meditation by Thomas Merton
Buy it, read it
A Great Introduction to Faulkner

Wild Palms
William Faulkner
Manufacturer: Modern Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394605136
Release Date: 1984-11-12

Customer Reviews:

If it doesn't have punctuation in the title, it's not really Faulkner.......2006-12-11

I supposed this was not a major work because I hadn't heard about it before. Nope, it's major. The most popular form of this book is to rip it in half and such that Old Man is by itself as a short novel. That's really a shame. Old Man, is a rollicking story of a man swept away on the Mississippi during the flooding of New Orleans in 1927 (Hoover's deft handling of the crisis is a large part of the reason that he became president). However, the story doubles its power when it is juxtaposed with the story of two lovers flooded out of civilization by their aching need for each other. You get two uncontrollable forces of nature, both horrifiying to encounter, and both demolishing the prisons within which the protagonists of each story are previously held (let's say the medical career path of one, and actual prison for the other). A primary question in each is whether it's better to be back in the prison or not, and there's a strong case for yes in each.

Both stories are good, but what makes this spectacular is simply the fact that the experiment is attempted. Who does things like this? There's a thematic link between the stories, but it's fairly loose. However, the back and forth interspersion paces the stories perfectly. In non-stop presentation, I think the tone of either of these would be too much to take. As it is, though, this is actually a page turner. More impressively, these aren't two stories that were slapped together (a la the Golden Slumbers medley (God forgive me) or Scenes from an Italian Restaurant) but were written at the same time after a major heartbreak. There's also the greatest two word last line of any novel that I'm aware of. I won't spoil it.

This isn't a great introduction to Faulkner, but it's a fantastic example of why people who love him love him. Milan Kundera singled this one out, maybe not as a favorite, but as a book that should be more highly recognized. I couldn't agree more. Faulkner has the problem of too many masterpieces. At this stage of his career, it's hard to ignore any of them.

Modernist Faulkner.......2006-10-08

Wild Palms

This is a Faulkner must-read, but not without some problems. "Wild Palms" is as modernist a novel as anything by Virginia Woolf. The alternating stories - which seem to have no surface relationship whatsoever, is daring and artsy stuff. But does it work? The "Wild Palms" portion tells the story of two lovers, one who is married, who cast everything to the wind in order to live a bohemian life devoted to Love. I noticed one reviewer commented that theirs was a selfless love. Quite the contrary. Oh, within their bubble, Charlotte and Harry are as devoted to each other as Dante's Paolo and Francesca. And like those two, Harry and Charlotte are immolated within their own choices, their own lusts. The impact on others is never a real consideration, as they act out, with heroic resolve, their devotion - to Love. There are passages within the Wild Palms portion that are simply soaring in their beauty. It will have you recalling, A Farewell to Arms, especially the part that takes place in the Western mountains.

Old Man, which is much anthologized and thus regrettably removed from the context of this novel, in contrast to the tragic Wild Palms, is almost like low comedy - Faulkner style. There is of course powerful writing - especially the great descriptions of the Flood, that sounds like a King James appendix from Genesis. What's interesting is how the characters of Old Man are never really revealed as they are in Wild Palms. The poor convict, who shepherds the woman and her infant child along, is always having bad stuff happen to him. And he deals with it. And the woman herself, you hardly even know. She's a presence, a responsibility, a reminder if you will, of perhaps a higher order that we as humans should respond to. The two operate as archetypes more than multi-faceted characters, but archetypes have great power, as any reader of the Bible knows. On the other hand, Charlotte and Harry serve only themselves, and we are intensely aware of every shift in emotion -- and its cause. Faulkner clearly was aware of this contrast, and how you chew on it will determine what you think of the novel - and it is a novel, not just two separate stories. Faulkner links the two with Hope, as Harry makes a choice while looking through the prison bars at the end: Grief is better than nothing, which is a no-brainer for the convict of Old Man. What is also interesting is how Faulkner timed the portions. Wild Palms, which starts the book, takes place in 1937. Old Man takes place in 1927. Only ten years separates the two, but the time of Old Man is already nearly a mythic one, much like the Old Testament. The 1937 portion is hardly New Testament, and more likely an indictment from Faulkner. The modern world, with all its dehumanizing aspects, presses down and around Harry and Charlotte. There is No Exit - except the one they've sworn to as a couple. And there is something in that, however charged with Right and Wrong such a choice may be. At least Harry and Charlotte are still human. Read it.

"The Wild Palms"--used as a meditation by Thomas Merton.......2006-01-26

This book was recommended to me a few months ago by Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk who died in 1968. How this happened is as follows: I was looking through some book cases in the back of a local Catholic church, when I found some audiotapes of lectures given by Thomas Merton to monks in training during the early 60's. I had read his biography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," and wanted to hear his voice and get an idea of what he was like. I listened to many of his tapes--some were good, some not so good--but one of the tapes, titled "The Deluge," was particularly interesting to me. It discussed how the monks could use the writings of William Faulkner as inspiration for meditation on the eternal Truths of the human condition. Most of Merton's discussion was about Faulkner's book "The Wild Palms." I recommend Merton's tape "The Deluge" for those who want an interesting perspective about this book.

As for my comments about this book, I believe it is one of the most pro-life books I have ever read, particularly with its theme of abortion in "Wild Palms" contrasted with the theme of the birth of a thriving infant during the flood in "The Old Man." Also, this book shows that you never know where you will encounter virtue. The convict displays great virtue in "The Old Man" while the modern, educated people in "Wild Palms" show an obvious lack of it.

In summary, if you liked "The Wild Palms," you should listen to Merton's tape, "The Deluge." You can probably still get this through the Merton Society.

Buy it, read it.......2004-10-08

This is the 4th or 5th Faulkner novel I've read. I think it should be better known. The tile of the novel is important, The Wild Palms: [If I FORGET Thee, Jerusalem]. Memory is an important theme of the novel. Pay attention to it. "The Wild Palms" is a New Testament parable, of sorts. The other novella, "Old Man," is an Old Testament parable. Escape is an important theme. Wilbourne (=Will Born, Still Born) and Charlotte travel to New Orleans, San Antonio, Chicago, etc. trying to escape. From what? From whom? On the flip side, the convict can't escape, he's a convict. But he gets an opportunity to escape in the big flood (Noah) but doesn't. Why doesn't he try to escape? Charlotte should be compared to the woman with child the convict "saves" in the flood. Abortion is a theme. Mysogony may also be a theme. Is it? Willbourne is weak, Charlotte is strong. The convict is stupid--his girlfriend, is she smart, in a calculating way? In the end, is Faulkner obliquely saying the wrong people "hooked up," that Willbourne should have ideally met the woman who has the baby, and the convict should have met Charlotte, who in the beginning of the novel just want to "escape" with Willbourne?

If you keep the above points in mind as you read the novel, perhaps it will draw you in, then you too can drown in the flood of myriad meanings and multiplicity of inferences. Overall, a good, if not great novel. Dark, brooding, nihilistic--very tasty, though! Enjoy!!

A Great Introduction to Faulkner.......2002-07-08

I love this guy Faulkner. I read another half chapter of The Wild Palms on the train.
Never read anything by him before.

Faulkner's characters don't sit around and examine their navel. They just Do. Yes act on their passions they Do. His characters are not beautiful people. They have scars, injuries, poverty, depraved morals, injustices, suffering upon suffering. What makes the Wild Palms beautiful is the passion of people living life right on the bone.

A married woman is planning on abandoning her husband and two kids and running away with another man. The other man asks her what about her two kids. On page 41, she answers, "I know the answer to that and I know that I cant change that answer and I dont think I can change me because the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself." No Catholic saint-mystic ever said it better. Pretty good for a crazy Protestant drunk.

You hear talk about stream-of consciousness with James Joyce and Jack Kerouac and so on. This guy Faulkner captures the way our minds think and our mouths talk more realistically than anybody.

Of Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor said, "Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track when the Dixie Limited is roaring down."

Something about this book reminds me of the Stephen King material set in the south, the Southern-ness of it and the same kind of characters.

The omniscient author technique is frowned on in serious, modern literature. I don't knw if this aesthetic rule post-dates Faulkner, but he uses it to no ill effect. There's very little difference between when a character is speaking and Faulkner is speaking. It gives the effect of us reading the characters thoughts rather than Faulkner telling us what they are. It works perfectly.

Few to none of the characters in any of the standard, best-seller type books have any inner life. When most of the authors try it, they are quite pathetic at it. I suppose that's because the authors have no inner life themselves. Faulkner does not show us the inner life of any of his characters either. However, as Faulker presents his characters, the reader induces their inner drives from their actions. It works very, very well. Stephen King's characters are like this also.

Book Description

Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to remarkable critical acclaim. The New Yorker called it "an auspicious debut," and the Los Angeles Times touted it as "a novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness," naming it one of the ten best books of the year. American Woman, this gifted writer's second book, is a novel of even greater scope and dramatic complexity, about a young Japanese-American radical caught in the militant underground of the mid-1970s.

When 25-year-old Jenny Shimada steps out of the Rhinecliff train station in New York's Hudson Valley, the last person she expects to see is Rob Frazer, a shadowy figure from her previous life. On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, Jenny agrees to take on the job of caring for three younger fugitives whom Frazer has spirited out of California. One of them, the granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity. Kidnapped by a homegrown revolutionary group, Pauline shocked America when she embraced her captors' ideology, denouncing family and class to enlist in their radical cell.

American Woman unfolds the story of Jenny and her charges -- Pauline, Juan, and Yvonne, the remains of the busted revolutionary cadre -- as they pursue their destinies from an old farmhouse in upstate New York back to California. Provocative, suspenseful, and often wickedly comic, the novel explores the psychology of the young radicals -- outsiders all -- as isolation and paranoia inevitably undermine their ideals. American Woman is a tour de force with chilling resonance for readers today.

Customer Reviews:

To Be Frank: A Terrible Book.......2007-08-01

Susan Choi is, quite simply, a bad writer. Reading this book reminded me of the overexaggerated and ostentatious fiction stories that my classmates used to write in high school. Verbose, overblown, and absolutely pointless self-realizations take up probably 1/2 of the novel.

Choi attempts to falsely create a sense of suspense by writing the entire novel as if it were one big climax, and she ends up with an empty product as the result. While there might be interesting psychological constructions and tidbits of information about the Vietnam era somewhere in the text, everything is lost in unnecessarily grandiose flashbacks that distract from plot development and clichéed poetic prose that had me groaning every five minutes.

What's even worse is the single focus on characters who are arrogant, obnoxious, and completely irredeemable. I found myself constantly looking up to the sky and asking God, "Why is this author making me focus for hundreds of pages on lazy and rude revolutionaries who do absolutely nothing all day?"

You might pick up this book and think you're reading a story of epic proportions, but don't be fooled- American Woman is a terribly written novel with no plot development and characters who are easily detestable.

Unfocused.......2006-11-08

Susan Choi is a fine writer with an understanding of the complex layers of humanity; however, in her novel American Woman these layers rarely came together to create full characters. Details of life habits do not, of themselves, endow life. The plot, borrowed from history, is nothing without the characters: how their inner reflections shape their external relationships. Unfortunately, Ms. Choi offers a profusion of details without definition, leaving Jenny and Frazer unfocused while Juan and Yvonne remain caricatures. Pauline is her most successful character--never her own person, but always as others see her.

Great piece of writing, thanks!.......2006-08-03

Briefly, this piece had me moved to tears. I am so glad that I ordered it and would recommend it to all!

Boring! Had to put it away after a few pages.......2006-01-01

I forced myself to read the 6 pages or so. This took tremendous effort and time (about 10 minutes) and still I didn't quite "get it". What is this book about and how did it get published???

I admit all books fall into two categories for me: I either love it and can't put it down until it is done or I have to force myself to read the first few pages then wind up giving it away or putting it in the back of the book shelf. Unfortunately, this book falls in the latter category.

Choi's fascinating insight into 70s radicalism.......2005-03-20

Susan Choi's "American Woman" is an adroitly written, highly distinguished and mature piece of work based on the Patty Hearst kidnapping case in the 70s, which for those old enough to remember was a media headlining incident that shocked the nation and gave new meaning to radicalism in the days it was being played out live to a horrified world audience. Tellingly, Choi adopts the perspective of the shadowy helper Jenny - daughter of an interned Japanese immigrant - rather than the celebrity figure of Pauline (Patty) in this fictional and richly imagined account of the incident.

Choi's examination of 70s radicalism and racism in America throws up fascinating insights into the phenomenon of terrorism as we follow Jenny's increasingly uncertain mental and emotional state while hiding and keeping Pauline and her kidnappers away from the clutches of the law. Her prolonged period of exposure and contact with the kidnappers lead her to examine and understand her own motives for taking part in a bombing of a public property, her feelings for William, a co-conspirator now in jail, and the caustic irony of terrorist acts which devalue human lives while claiming it as their cause. Jenny gets to consider the twisted logic by which a terrorist absolves himself from guilt by calculating that the building about to go up in smoke shouldn't have any occupants anyway. Tough, if there should be.

Jenny thinks she knows Pauline from the time they're out there playing Thelma and Louise. Little does she know that when the game is up and Pauline is back in the arms of her clan, the realm of protection that privilege and celebrity confers takes over and their time together seems like only a dream. The message isn't a pretty one. But it would be wrong to see Pauline as dishonest. She isn't. Her helplessness in captivity gives her the freedom to hit out at her family and the high society that made her unhappy and a rebel. In other words, she got a free ride from not having to take responsibility for her action but eventually the privileged close ranks and a packaged verdict is delivered to a bewildered public.

Susan Choi is an important new writer in contemporary fiction. Her voice rings loud and clear over the familiar and much publicized story of Patty Hearst. "American Woman" was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. Pity she didn't win it `cos it's an astounding sophomore effort from Choi and for my money better than the one that did.

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The Good Child's River
Thomas Wolfe
Manufacturer: Univ of North Carolina Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

Eighty Years have passed since the Mystics founded Calsandria, and now their nation is mired in politics and bloodlines.A woman with no magic, Theona Conlan leads the desperate search for the missing Prince of House Arvad.In the faery realm, Dwynwyn learns that slave creatures are mastering a magic that threatens the fragile peace between the faeries and their enemies.And while the goblin Lunid builds a device to reach across worlds, her masters plot to use it for their own dark ends.But unknown to them all, the gates between realities are about to burst open and plunge humans, faeries, and goblins into a war that can be won only with an undiscovered magic...One that will unite--or destroy--three worlds.

Customer Reviews:

Miserable.......2006-05-17

I read the first three books before writing a review.

All three books make use of dream sequences. This one abuses dream sequences.

It left with many questions:

1) If the mystics were this powerful, then why didn't turn the Pir and the Dragons into grease spots long ago?
2) Why should I care about any of these characters?
3) Where are we going?

This book jumps another 100 years and drops you into worlds that are vaguely familiar to the ones in the previous novels.

I found the narrative disjointed (kind of like driving off a cliff).

I didn't know any of these characters and it appeared none of the characters knew much of the characters in the previous books.

There is an utter lack of continuity between these books. Internally, I didn't think this book held up at all.

I'm sorry I wasted $16.

Was this a conclusion?.......2006-05-02

I love fantasy novels. I especially love books that peer into the culture and religion of the characters of the novel the way the Crown of Stars series by Kate Elliot does, and this series showed promise in the first book and its exploration of the Pir Draconis.

Books two and three move forward in time a generatin and one hundred years respectively, and they do so very unconvincingly. The world, or worlds, created here are amazingly intriguing, and it would have been worth my time for this to have been a highly detailed exploration of the nature of these worlds.

We were given teasers about a possible cataclysm between the worlds, yet the events that actually do happen are amazingly shallow in their exploration of the characters and the nature of their universe. Even the possible romantic implications here are rushed and left me thinking that the authors were doing nothing but creating a new market for role playing games, and that tends to anger me a little.

Even with all this, the book, and the series as a whole, deserve a 3 star rating for several reasons.

1: If the authors choose to write more books in this universe, I am hoping they will do so with an eye toward more detail and character development, because the potential for great stories and amazing situations is vast and could provide for amazing reading (I want to know who the Titans were, not to mention the Rhamasian Empire and the Kyree Empire that ended in tragedy.)

2: In spite of the rushed writing, there are some characters here that could be looked at further. Galen Arvad in particular was a character that I really wanted to know more about in the second and third books, but we got very little as the authors chose to move forward in time. The Faery and Goblin worlds are, especially the Goblin world, left mostly unexplored. I am very intrigued by the Goblin world and how it became the desolate and degenerate place it is.

3: I'm a sucker for this kind of story.

4: The rushed writing does create one effect that can work in its favor, it creates a sense of urgency and the books are very readable. They are entertaining and all together worth the time, just not great.

I am not going to give any spoilers, as I don't want to ruin anything for anyone, but the ending was, in my opinion, very unsatisfying. I get that the whole "Happily Ever After" thing should not ever be the case, the world goes on, but this all seemed too rushed and too pat for me.

3:

spellbinding fantasy.......2006-04-14

Calsandria is home to Mystics who have Deep Magic and to commoners who have no magic. The place can be only be reached through portals known to the denizens of the city because many outsiders would like to see the city destroyed again and the mystics scattered. Within Calsandria, clans jockey for more political power which is why Rylmar Conlan is having his daughter Valana marry into the powerful Arvad clan.

Prince Treijan and his cousin disappear and Valana and her sister Theona try to track them down. A wily dwarf uses a secret portal to take the sisters to where the prince and his cousin are staying. However, soon that place will no longer be safe because the goblin horde from another world intends to conquer that land and the world of Fairy. The faery queen, besieged by the Kree and other enemies, throws her lot in with the humans in the hopes that a victory will give them a new place to call home. Theona who was thought to have no magic has blossomed into a seer who knows that the decisions certain people make will decide the outcome of the war.

Book Three of the Bronze Canticles is a spellbinding tale of ancient prophecy about to be fulfilled. The writing team of Tracy and Laura Hickman are great fantasists who pull the reader into the storyline from the very first page. Readers will finish this book in one sitting because it is such an absorbing reading experience. It is this reviewer's fervent hope that the Hickmans return to Calsandria so the audience can see how the characters that we have come to love are doing.

Harriet Klausner

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