Fires of the Kindred — Robin Skelton

In his new book, Robin Skelton speculates on an alternate past, an ancestry that might have been -- or was, perhaps, forgotten. It is a revisioning of our origins, back to the roots of shamanism and the beginnings of mythology. True magic and harmony with nature undergo displacement by violent ambition and abstract thought, driving a wedge between the unity of Woman and Man. Told simply and sensitively through the lives of two apprentice shamans, themselves at the threshold of adulthood, the narrative draws us into a world where the ruling process is Change, where Humanity itself is losing its innocence and, for better or worse, is coming of age.