It was a little strange but worth the a read sorta dr. dolittle meets the time traveler.

For re-reading before it goes.

Amazon.com
This technically polished novel ingeniously combines elements from traditional quests, fables, and novels. A seemingly rhetorical question is posed in chapter 1: Why did sociable, smart Dora Henry marry cold, controlling Jared Gerber? But that question is the key to the book and to the parallel stories told by Sheri Tepper. The sets of characters unravel their separate puzzles until all become different aspects of the same web of events, shaking the reader's, and Dora's, perceptions to the core. Tepper's linguistic sleight-of-hand with metaphor and image is breathtaking; her storytelling is deft and funny; her characters are memorable and sympathetic. Topical, mythical, archetypal, and provocative, this is a book no fantasy or science fiction reader should miss.

Still my favorite by this author. It's wonderfully confusing and disturbing at times. Now that I'm finished, its journey can start. Today it's on its way to the UK!

Well, this was a little different. I've never read anything by this author, so it was a new style to me. I was really confused at first - I'm used to reading more than one book at once, but the interweaving of chapters threw me to start with! Ingeniously brought together at the end though, with a great twist in the tale.

Although the reviews and the back cover purport to be a book about Dora Henry, there is only one character that is done in the first person (i.e. refers to themself as 'I' and therein lies one of the great mysteries of the book. I suspect that this book is a little like the film Sixth Sense which gives it a different viewpoint the second time around.

I will move this book on in the UK, so that it can have some more travels over here.

Passed on to Bookcrosser Mylor to read.

Got this book back from Mylor. Will send on again to somewhere...