Song of the Dark Wood -- Sheila Masterson, Hardcover Les Amazones D'Afrique Winner of an Arts and

Winner of an Arts and Letters Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

April 1998)

a late-nineteenth-century idea to communicate with Martians via Morse code and mirrors

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Song of the Dark Wood -- Sheila Masterson, Hardcover Les Amazones D'Afrique Winner of an Arts andFor centuries, the people of remote Ballybrine have kept the peace with their gods by sacrificing a Red Maiden to ferry souls from the Mother's realm of the living, through the Dark Wood, to the Wolf's realm of the dead. Soon it will be Rowan's turn. Ripped from her family as a young girl, Rowan Cleary has been forced into a cloistered life learning to please the wolf and wield her spirit enchanting voice. Though none of the previous maidens have