Circles of Stone
Ever sinceClan of the Cave Bear, readers (and publishers) have been awaiting another fetching prehistorical tale aimed at women. Maybe Lambert's saga about a series of healer-women named Zena is it. The Zenas carry a goddess tradition from an African homeland into southern France and beyond. One million years ago, the first Zena loses her mother in a flash flood, then finds and rears a child orphaned by a lion attack; later, adopted into the orphan's clan, she becomes its leader, and during her life, the first sacred stone circle, representing the power of birth, is built. The second Zena arrives some 250,000 years ago, when genetic changes make birth difficult and the connection with a powerful birthing goddess more vital. The third Zena lives in the Pyrenees as Paleolithic cave art is born; she endures and survives the arrival of patriarchal raiders from the north. Energetic and entertaining, Lambert's epic may prove irresistible to those yearning for something indisputablyClannish.Patricia Monaghan--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.