Plane Story; Myth and Magic — Elyse Guttenberg

Susan is on an airplane, and she doesn't like it one bit. Airplanes are terrifying and strange. The whole idea of leaving the earth and flying fills her with anxiety. And she doesn't like the frumpy woman who sits next to her and starts pulling figurines from her purse and pushing them at her. Tiny, ancient goddesses made of clay. There's Myrine for war. Erua for fertility. Naila for the sky. The woman won't stop asking questions, and she knows too much.Elyse Guttenberg is best known as an Alaskan fantasy author. She is the recipient of an Alaska State Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship in Literature and an Artists Initiative Award. Her first novel Sunder, Eclipse and Seed (Roc, 1990) was shortlisted for best first novel by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Summer Light and Daughter of the Shaman are prehistories set in Alaska 2000 years ago. With her newest novel, THE POWER WE SHARE, Guttenberg kicks off a new series set in a re-imagined earth in the age of sail. Praise for Summer Light:Summer Light is excellent, authentic and beautifully written. Reading it is a wonderful experience.  Sue Harrison, author of Mother Earth, Father SkyAnyone interested in Alaska's Natives will find much to like in this book, and anyone interested in good, factually correct fiction will find it irresistible. Alaska MagazineGuttenberg creates a world based on the Paleo Eskimo cultures of Alaska and a young woman whose skills are less for sewing sealskin and setting traps than for singing the spirit songs. Includes a fascinating afterward about her research which ranged from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where she lives, to the Arctic ice fields. Feminist Bookstore News Watch