The Firekeeper's Daughter

<p>From the vastness of Stone Age Siberia to a minefield in today’s Angola from the black beaches of Iceland to the African savannah and a Jewish-German cemetery Karola Renard tells thirteen mythic stories of initiation featuring twenty-first-century kelpies sirens and holy fools a river of tears and a girl who dances on fire a maiden shaman of ice a witch in a secret garden Queen Guinevere’s magic mirror and a woman who swallows the moon. The red thread running through them all is a deep faith in life and the need to find truth and meaning even in the greatest of ordeals.</p>