The Wood Wife

What a surprise. This book was supposed to be part of Brian Froud's Faerielands series, like Patricia McKillip's Something Rich and Strange which I just read and reviewed. However, as Windling worked on it, it grew into its own novel. Still, Windling references Froud and his art in the novel and even dedicates the book to him. The faeries in this book though are the spirits of the American Southwest. Like the poet in her book, she's British but moved to the Sonoran Desert and fell in love with it. It shows, as this is like a love letter to the region. In fact, it made me long for the high desert which I just visited earlier this year. The sights, the sounds, the mythology, are all part of the experience of this book. It won the Mythopoeic Award just two years after McKillip's book.

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