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(More customer reviews)Steve Barnes has traditionally written in the Sci-Fi genre and more recently with the publication of "Lion's Blood" and "Zulu Heart" has written alternate history tales.
"Great Sky Woman" does not fit neatly into a genre, rather it is a genre all its own: Spiritual Fiction. Barnes has managed to create a world that "might have been" based on a world that probably was. The story revolves around the life of two young people in the pre-historic, fictional tribe of the Ibandi. The Ibandi live in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro. T'Cori (the nameless one) is an orphaned girl raised to be a Dancer (basically a spiritual healer, soothsayer and holy woman). Frog is a young man raised by his Uncle to be a warrior; like all young men he constantly compares himself with his brothers and peers and constantly finds himself lacking. Barnes sets these characters in a deeply transitional time for the Ibandi: The coming of a Tribe the Mk*tk that are clearly the physical superiors of a the Ibandi (A tribe that heretofore had been on the top of the "human" food chain) and the coming of a great geological disaster that may forever change the beliefs and the homeland of the Ibandi.
As in all of Barnes' novels, "Great Sky Woman" is character driven. It is a coming of age novel and although these people are interacting in a time before history, one cannot help but see the motivations that still drive us today: Food, sex, love, the desire to fit in and a yearning to see God. This is a deeply human novel brought to a wonderful three-dimensional life by Steve Barnes' talent and in depth understanding of the Spiritual and earthly nature of man.
I highly recommend this book for any that wish to look more deeply into themselves and the motivations that drive each and every one of us.
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