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Pippa Rede--a contemporary witch and devoted mother of nine-year-old Winterbelle--struggles for subsistence in a frigid north-eastern corner of America. When her daughter is stolen from her by bigots and zeealots who have labeled Pippa an unfit parent, Pippa retreats into the dark, wild wood on a transforming inner quest, determined to unlock the strengths she will need to win back her Winterbelle.

Gone are the wild grasses, rolling meadows and towering trees--except for one last forest in a forgotten corner of the world. Then, suddenly, the forest begins to grow--and grow. Mother Nature is back--with a vengeance, and the survival of mankind is at stake.

Amidst the barren world lies a forest of unspeakable beauty, which has become wise in the ways of man. Now people venture deep into the woods to make peace with nature and learn her ways.

The people of earth whispered the name in fear... The Overmind... the powerful entity which could reactivate the dreaded machines of long ago, before the last great war. War had changed the planet in strange and terrible ways. But one thing had not changed. War still went on...

Molly's and Tex's abrupt and accidental deaths have granted them a unique opportunity to brazenly reinvent their personal realities--not to mention a chance to commune with various forsaked ancient deities and down-and--out woodland spirits. But a pair of gentle souls once firmly rooted in the Earth cannot so easily vacate this corporeal plane. There are despoilers, witches, wolves, outlaw hackers, and rabid survivalists running wild through the soon-to-be corporately mutated Great North Woods. And Tex and Molly aren't about to vanish forever into the fast-moving eddy of Time until they take one last shot at profoundly influencing Eternity and this Life that is no longer theirs.

Like a racous pagan dance in Thomas Pynchon's garden, here is a novel rich in intelligence, wit, unrestrained joy, and serious strangeness--a truly breathtaking flight of the imaginatino--written with style and heart by an award-winning storyteller whom the Washington Post once proclaimed "either a genius or a madman."

A young boy is traded by his father to Oasis--a monstrous vehicle that moves inexorably across the wasteland, dispensing treatment for "The Crying", a plague of madness that has destroyed the land.