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Excellent Feminist SciFi Sep 01, 2008
By M. Bergin
This book is a spiritual offering of feminist consciousness. Judith Ivy is a gifted writer who surprises and enchants the reader again and again with intelligence and creativity. I'm so glad I read this book. It feeds my heart and soul.
The heroine, an emotionally overwhelmed fifty-year-old social worker striving to make a positive difference in the suffering of people in contemporary society, is moved by great longing within a deeply meditative state to find the true home of her spirit in a civilization of 4,000 years ago based upon precepts of equality, harmony, and balance with all nature. In this way the author invites us to sense our own potential for living in harmony with the natural world and creating compassionate communities of dynamic balance and peace.
As a truly feminist masterpiece, while this story moves surely forward disclosing events in a linear fashion, it also moves in circular --even spiral patterns as the heroine travels through time and learns by remembering, even as her selves evolve as young girl, mother and crone. Eventually, the heroine finds that she, and humankind, has always faced--even as she does now as a social worker--self-serving violence used as justification for societies based on fear and domination.
A few passages from the book struck me with their beauty, and I'll quote a little here:
"It is through the retelling of our past at each circle of the moon...that we weave ourselves into the energy force of the web of life. Each time the story is told we mend the broken places of the web, strengthen the bonds, and are reminded of our connection to the whole, the oneness of life."
"...it takes a community to maintain a community."
Reading this book can be a much deeper experience than enjoying the good read. This story helps us to be aware of the implicit order of things -- the values we hold most dear, and to feel our own capacity to create culture (shared meaning) by living as we want most to live.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Was one of those "Couldn't put it down" books!!!! Aug 17, 2008
By Keith B. Martin
"Gentle Soul"
What more can I say? The world Ms. Ivy weaves is compelling, pulling the reader further and further in.
This work is akin to Jean Auel's "Earth Children" series married with Forrest Gump. There's magic, drama, tragedy, hope and passion aplenty.
Now, will say, the ending wasn't to my liking . . . and I HOPE Ms. Ivy has already begun her sequal . . .
Riveting Story Feb 12, 2010
By Deborah H. Yemm
I loved this book and devoured it rapidly. The story was very well developed. The alternate world, which is half or more of the book, is totally believable. The message of the story, made reading it, feel that much more worthwhile.
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