The Woman Who Lives in the Earth
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0060174110 / Publisher: HarperCollins, January 1996
Targeted by her people because of her imaginative fascination with nature, Sarah is proclaimed a demon by the Lizard Woman and sentenced to burn, but a foxlike creature helps her use the powers of nature to save herself
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Written in resonant, poetic prose, this tale about overcoming fear and hatred takes place in a time before modern machines or long after their fall. In a harsh, primitive world, an almond-eyed girl named Sarah and her family are threatened by a severe drought. Sarah's imagination and her fascination with the mysteries of nature lead the local villagers to believe she is an evil demon and the cause of the drought.
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