Re: Book Review - Reindeer Moon, The Animal Wife (paleolithic fiction)

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Stephen Barnard <steve@megafauna.com> wrote:
>The shamanism
>imagery is poetic, not intended to be taken literally, I suppose. Even
>though I'm a skeptic, I found it to be one of the most moving elements
>of the book.

Yes, it's completely epiphenomenal, so it doesn't detract from the
gritty realism of the main story. (I'm also a sceptic, and very
sensitive to this sort of thing.)

Danny Yee.

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