Walking to Mercury: Starhawk - Softcover

Starhawk, Starhawk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553378392 ISBN 13: 9780553378399

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

Writer, priestess, and visionary Maya Greenwood has remained true to her one moment of connection to the land and its spirits. But now, approaching her fortieth year, she has lost her way. Seeking to reclaim her power, she goes on a pilgrimage to her sister Debby's remote mountain clinic in Nepal, their dead mother's ashes in her backpack. Together, Maya hopes she and Debby can heal their fractured family bonds, allowing Maya to finally lay her past to rest and breathe new life into her future. Yet the past proves heavier than Maya ever suspected, as she begins the laborious climb through a landscape of memories. In the journal given to her by Johanna Weaver - her soul sister, her mirror, her lover - she relives the ecstatic union they first formed as teenage rebels, a union still challenged by convention and Johanna's fierce commitment to her African foremothers. In the letters from Rio Connolly - that wild, impulsive, doomed youth - she reenters the dreams they once built together as outlaws blazing a path for change. Now Rio, transformed by his own struggles, calls to her across ten thousand miles. Whatever Maya decides will have dire consequences. If she rejects Rio's offer, she will close a door forever on an opportunity to reclaim her past. But if she goes back to him, she must reveal an intimate secret kept far too long - a secret that could shatter Maya's vision for the future.

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Review:

Critical acclaim for The Fifth Sacred Thing:

"Slated to be one of the great visionary Utopian novels of the century...It's a rare book to which I give such a high recommendation; but I spent the best part of three days reading it, and at the end, I would have loved it to be longer. I simply fell in love with both characters and setting. It's a wonderful book."
--Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of The Forest House

"For the future of our kind, The Fifth Sacred Thing is an anthem of hope. Generations to come will bless the name of Starhawk."
--Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael and The Story of B

From the Back Cover:

In her bestselling first novel, 'The Fifth Sacred Thing', Starhawk created an unforgettable character – Maya Greenwood, the 98-year old writer and rebel who in the 21st century leads a successful movement against a totalitarian regime. Now, in 'Walking to Mercury', Starhawk goes back in time to tell the remarkable story of Maya’s life – a story that spans the decades from the tumultuous sixties to the present New Age.

The story starts in 20th century California where Maya is making a pilgrimage to the monasteries of Nepal. Here she relives, in vivid flashbacks, her life from her late teens to her late thirties. Drawing on her own memories and the journals and letters of her lovers Rio and Johanna, Maya brilliantly recaptures the highs and lows of her time at Haright-Ashbury in 1967, the sex’n’drugs and anti-Vietnam protests of the early-Seventies, her ecstatic unions with soul-sister Johanna and wild, impulsive Rio, and her fractured relationships with her sister and mother.

Travelling through the landscape of memories is harder than Maya ever imagined – an intimate secret stands in her way, and she must face it before she can breathe life into her future. 'Walking to Mercury 'is a fascinating adventure about the inescapable forces that transcend all our lives and gives them meaning.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0553378392
• ISBN 13: 9780553378399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496