Woman with a Man Inside Shel Brødsgaard False Maps for Other Creatures

False Maps for Other Creatures is the perfect book for those of us with no interest in the obvious

his rhythms are finely attuned to the movement of a meditating mind

Fu brings the rich symbolism of fairy tales to bear on our image-obsessed age

shaky though the firmament above may occasionally seem

Woman with a Man Inside Shel Brødsgaard False Maps for Other CreaturesDescription Skeptical and feminist, funny and disturbing, Barbara Parkin's stories expose the truth about her characters' lives: some rugged, some pastoral, all humming with danger and beauty. Philipa struggles to define herself outside her mother's fantasy that she will marry royalty; Lena confronts the women who tormented her when they were girls; Joy looks all over for somewhere to call her own, and finds herself in the house of her childhood.