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- Hidden Passages: Tales to Honor the Crones is a collection of eight uplifting stories about girls and women who, when faced with life’s challenges, turn to their cultural grandmothers for comfort and advice. Though the stories are set in different eras and cover different kinds of issues, each one reflects a reverence for the divine in every woman.
Forest Song: Finding Home is the story of Judy Baumann’s struggle to escape to her true home in the woods and to grow into her power there. A cast of magical characters, including a wise woman and the woman’s consort, help the girl in this enterprise. The story, situated between Germany and Poland, begins in 1929 and ends in 1933 when Judy becomes a woman.
Forest Song: Little Mother is the second of the Forest Song series and continues Judy Baumann’s story. In this episode, Judy reluctantly moves from her teacher’s house into a home of her own. From there she helps the forest denizens hide Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany and in the process discovers sexual love. In the end she becomes a mother in an unconventional way. A beautiful story of struggle and healing as a young woman comes of age.
Forest Song: Little Mother is scheduled for publication on 15 March, 2009
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“Tichu considered what the women had said. The fire festered like a wound, melting the snow around its base to a sickly oozing slush. Sitting cross-legged, the women waited, still as ice, unwilling to disturb her reflection. At last she drew her hand from Harugi’s, kissed the Crone on both her cheeks, and rose to speak. ‘When I die,’ she poked her chest fiercely with her finger, ‘it will be in Grandmother Spider’s arms, not on the end of a spear.’ Her voice, sharp as flint, chiseled between her clenched teeth.” Hidden Ppassages: Tales to Honor the Crones , p. 179
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“My first memory is of the forest’s call. Oh, no, it wasn’t the wind in the trees or the splashing of rain against arthritic trunks. Those sounds were there, in their proper seasons, along with the singing of the birds by day and the chirping of the crickets at night. But there was something else curling through all that, wispy and fragile, that I sometimes could not catch, something as sweet as wistfulness that would whisper near my ear as I lay in my bed.” Forest Song: Finding Home , p. 12
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Reviews of Forest Song: Little Mother
With her usual superb attention to detail, Vila Spiderhawk brings us another stunning novel. One of learning, of joy, of pain, of loss, of rebirth and life altering decisions.
Being the proud owner of Vila’s two previous novels, Hidden Passages and Finding Home, I see that she has grown and spread her wings with each one. This book reaches the pinnacle of beauty from the other two and I found myself entranced, unable to stop reading. Vila’s own life is reflected in this book. Her trave
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Reviews of Hidden Passages: Tales to Honor the Crones
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Hidden Passages - Tales to Honor the Crones by Vila SpiderHawk © 2007
Vanilla Heart Publishing ISBN 978-0-97965445-6-5 262 pages $15.99 (U.S.)
The subtitle of this book, "Tales to Honor the Crones", gave me a false impression. A collection of stories about crones should be about the end of life, but these stories are full of life. They are vivid, arresting, and entertaining.
Oh, there is death
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Reviews of Forest Song: Finding Home
Forest Song: Finding Home by Vila SpiderHawk -
Book Review by Dawn "Belladonna" Thomas
I was excited to begin this book after reading Ms. SpiderHawk’s book Hidden Passages: Tales of to Honor the Crones. I was definitely not disappointed. The story begins with a young girl, Judy, living with her family in Germany. Her family builds a wrought iron fence to attempt to contain her. Judy hears the song of the forest and constantly tries to break through and run for the woods.
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