The Mystical Land of Myrrh

Author:   Mary Ann Shank
Publisher:   Dippity Press
ISBN:  

9781733581905


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 June 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Listen to the stars dancing over Somalia and hear tales of warriors and camel herders, songs at the wells and melodies in every footstep.Moira, a young Peace Corps Volunteer, stretched her senses to soak in every story, every song that was around her. Her missteps tossed a beautiful young woman into a whipping circle, and denied her students the futures they had worked so hard to obtain.Moira's successes were few. Even her search for a lesbian lover in the labyrinth that was Mogadishu seemed hopeless.Moira was shaken to her very core when she stumbled on The Ritual, female circumcision, carried out in a hidden hut in the bush country, the Ritual that rips all feelings of sexual pleasure from between a young girl's legs.Through it all the Somali Goddess Arawello spreads her protective arms, reaching through wars and famines to reach her people. Once Arawello brought Peace by turning men into eunuchs, and may do so again. This is a journey of a young woman ready to meet the challenges of the world on her own terms, one who faces the terrors of bush country alongside the embrace of a lover in unlikely places. Moira faces challenges she never knew existed, and a love that envelopes her like an unfolding bird of paradise.Through the turmoil and ecstasy, Moira's love for the Somali people deepens as she reluctantly realizes that there is nothing -- nothing -- she can do to change their world to avert disaster. On the contrary, it is Somalia that changes her. She will never be the same again..

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Author:   Mary Ann Shank
Publisher:   Dippity Press
Imprint:   Dippity Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.245kg
ISBN:  

9781733581905


ISBN 10:   1733581901
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 June 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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I read through several chapters this morning and want to read the rest later. Your writing is very descriptive and informative. Mary Gehman, a Mennonite teacher in Somalia for 23 years, and author of ABDI AND THE ELEPHANTS, a delightful children's story about a young Somali boy who wants to learn all he can about farming, if the elephants don't destroy his farm first. .................................................. It's a captivating read, and gives the reader insight into an experience that is quite outside of our usual lives, and shares a unique perspective on cultural interchange. Nicely done! Barb Dickinson, We'Moonager of WE'MOON DATE BOOK: GAIA RHYTHMS FOR WOMYN, the premier inspirational compilation of divine art and writing bursting from womyn's spirituality. Many thousands of We'Moon Date Books are sold throughout the world each year, now in its 37th edition. ..................................................... This has evoked such deep emotion in me. You have put pen to paper so eloquently and did the Ritual justice in all its darkness. Heather C. Cumming, Executive Director and Founder, Simwatachela Sustainable Agricultural and Arts Program, an international service for women and children focusing on Africa's most needy.


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It is not the decades of versatile, lively writing that makes this historical novel so moving, nor the fact that MaryAnn really was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Somalia. No, it is the Somali people themselves, notably the Baidoans, who create the excitement, the sheer joy of this romantic adventure. MaryAnn hadn't intended to write about Somalia, for every time that she tried over the past several decades, the work fell short. She intended to write a children's story about a little fairy, but when she looked up, the words were there, blazing words of goddesses and devastation. She new the time had come. No more 'war lords in Somalia; only real people in real villages, pulled together by the intertwining threads of a lesbian finding her place in a very challenging world.

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