TRIGGER WARNING: The book's themes include self-harm and suicide, with several vivid and visceral scenes. When her life falls apart, Diane Butler succumbs to the impulse to seek out her mother's support. Her desperation coalescing into impulsivity, Diane hops on a plane to Dzibilchaltun, Mexico, ...
Narrated in alternating first-person narratives by archaeologist Elizabeth Butler and her adult daughter Diane, Falling Woman explores relationships between individuals, between past and present, between theory abstract and reality, between physical environment and culture.Elizabeth, a long-divorced...
An interestingly constructed Fantasy switching back in forth through time between a female archeologist exploring Mayan ruins and a woman living in Mayan times. I always appreciate Fantasies that explore locations and time periods other than Medieval Europe.