num_pages: 128
description: Moody shape-shifting provocative and always as compelling as a strong light at the end of a road you hesitate to walk down...but will.Amy BloomThe rubble of an ancient civilization. A village in a valley from which no one comes or goes. A forest of mother-trees whispering to each other through their roots; a lakeside lighthouse where a girl slips into human skin as lightly as an otter into water; a desert settlement where there was no conflict before she came; or the town of Wantwick ruled by a soothsayer where tourists lose everything they have. These are the places where things begin. New from the author of The Story of My Face Paradise &amp; Elsewhere is a collection of dark fables at once familiar and entirely strange: join the Orange Prize-nominated Kathy Page as she notches a new path through the wild lush half-fantastic and half-real terrain of fairy tale and myth. Praise for Paradise &amp; ElsewhereThis vibrant startlingly imaginative collection reminded meas few collections have done in recent yearsof both where stories come from and why we need to tell them. Kathy Page is a massive talent: wise smart very funny and very humane.Barbara Gowdy
language: English
title: Paradise and Elsewhere
publisher: Biblioasis