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CHILD OF A RAINLESS YEAR
Lindskold, Jane
2005 42487 Middle-aged Mira Fenn knows she has an uncomfortably exotic past. As a small girl, she lived in a ornate old house in tiny Las Vegas, New Mexico, tended by oddly silent servant women and ruled by her coldly flamboyant mother Colette. When Mira was nine, Colette went on one of her unexplained trips, only this time she never returned. Placed with foster parents, Mira was raised in Ohio, normal save for her passion for color. On gaining adulthood, she learned that she still owned the New Mexico house. She also learned that, as a condition of being allowed to adopt her, Mira's foster parents had agreed to change their name, move to another state, and never ask why. Years later, going through family papers after the deaths of her elderly foster parents, Mira finds documents that pique her curiosity about her vanished mother and the reasons behind her strange childhood and adoption. Travelling back to New Mexico, she finds the house is and isn't as she remembers it. Inside, it's much the same. Outside, it's been painted in innumerable colors. As Mira continues to investigate her mother's life, events take stranger and stranger turns. The silent women reappear. Even as Mira begins to suspect the power to which she may be heir, the house itself appears to be waking up... Shot through with magic and the atmosphere of the Southwest, this singular fantasy novel has all the storytelling vigor of Jane Lindskold's very popular Firekeeper series. From The Critics Publishers Weekly When middle-aged spinster Mira Fenn returns to her birthplace, Las Vegas, N.Mex., to try to find out what happened to her mother, Colette, who disappeared from their mirror-filled house without a trace years earlier, she finds a town full of ghosts and contradictions. Domingo, the hereditary caretaker of Mira's ancestral home, tells her that the house has been asking him to paint it in new and brilliant colors. As Mira and Domingo explore the house's awakening intelligence, their intricately entwined family histories and their own growing relationship, they find out more about color magic, Colette and Mira herself than they might have wanted to know. Conferring magical life on ordinary objects and people with a sweet flair reminiscent of Charles De Lint and Pamela Dean, Lindskold (Through Wolf's Eyes, etc.) spins a lovely and original yarn that ends up sadly tangled with unresolved questions; though billed as a stand-alone work, the novel contains a sequel's worth of untied loose ends. Mira phlegmatically declares that having more questions than answers is "fine with me," and anyone who agrees will find this an extremely enjoyable read. Agent, Kay McCauley. (May 18) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. KLIATT Mira's whole life was her mother Colette, an elegant but unstable woman. Her name recalls the many mirrors that surrounded her mother, which left little psychic space for Mira's own development. Soon after Mira started school, Colette disappeared, and Mira was sent off to Boise with foster parents. Now that she is 50 and single, Mira's life is turned upside down once again. She is called back to her hometown when she finds out that her childhood home is hers to keep. Remembering the off-white Victorian house, Mira is surprised to see a motley-colored home. The groundskeeper Domingo said that the house "wanted" those colors. Very sensitive to color herself, Mira goes along with Domingo's perceptions, and works to get the Phineas House, as it is called, back into shape. In the process, Mira notices that someone-or thing-is helping clean and take care of the house. Then Mira discovers that she can speak to ghosts. Who-and what-is alive? Her mother? Her father? The house? And to what extent are they controlling her life? Lindskold slowly builds a credible foundation to this paranormal story, which posits a liminal world: the "crack" between the lines of reality that enable one to travel through parallel universes. The pacing is leisurely but suspenseful, sucking in the attention of the reader much as the house does to Mira a Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC 0-7653-1513-0 / 9780765315137
Soft Cover First Edition As New Condition
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21.00 USD
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