Hag
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- $22.99
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
At this, the Cailleach would release a single drop of indigo dye onto the topmost layer. See, she would tell her daughter. See? It bleeds through the topmost path and onto the next. In this way, so many things from the next world touch ours, and our world touches the layer beneath.
High above the sea, hidden in the rocky Scottish cliffs, something stirs. An ancient matriarchal power has set the wheels in motion for a long line of descendants. But to what end?
Spanning centuries of human history, these daughters of the lowland hag, the Cailleach, must navigate a world filled with superstition, hatred, violence, pestilence, and death to find their purpose. With pasts half remembered and destinies denied, the daughters of Cailleach are women with uncanny, and often feared, abilities to heal, to see the future and to cause great destruction and pain when threatened. With each passing generation, the waves crash against the shore, and the Cailleach awaits a homecoming that will bring everything full circle.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kaufman (The Lairdbalor) draws on Gaelic mythology to weave a complex, nonlinear novel about secret, shared feminine power. By the age of six, Alice Grace Kyles knew her ability to peer into people's pasts and futures was unique. As she grows, sheltered by her mother and beloved aunt, she treads a path similar to the magic-wielding women who have come before her, acknowledging her power to harm and to save. But it takes most of a lifetime for Alice to understand that she is descended from the Cailleach, a maternal deity who has infused her daughters with powers before sending them off into the world. Even though they forget the power they yield, these women are bound together across time by the legacy of that power. Character development and insight are repeatedly sacrificed to the complicated structure of the book, but Kaufman's narrative skill will still draw fans of folklore and the occult into this heady multigenerational legend.
