Mission Child
A stunning and provocative spiritual odyssey reminiscent of the best work of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin, Mission Child is a powerful fable, a stirring adventure, and a profoundly moving portrait of a lost woman in search of an identity as she walks the narrow fault line dividing female...
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A stunning and provocative spiritual odyssey reminiscent of the best work of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin, Mission Child is a powerful fable, a stirring adventure, and a profoundly moving portrait of a lost woman in search of an identity as she walks the narrow fault line dividing female and male, child and adult, dark reality and illuminated dream.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780380791224 (0380791226)
Publish date: November 4th 1999
Publisher: Eos
Pages no: 370
Edition language: English
Pretty sure from the plot description that I've read this before, have to pick it up in person to see...
Stayed up way later than I should have finishing this!It's not so much "what happened" - actually, the book is fairly low on "plot" - rather, it follows the (rather traumatic and itinerant) life of a woman from a primitive society on a colony planet, from the brink of womanhood to middle age, along ...
This was really good for most of the book, and then it was just really long. I think I'd have given it another star if it had just ended sooner.
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