Godmother Night
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Average rating4.5
Almost a set of short stories, this novel breaks into discrete episodes, centered on identity, love, and death. Jaqe has no identity until she meets Laurie, introduced and named by Mother Night; in that moment, she knows herself, and that she loves Laurie. But once Mother Night has become part of their lives, Laurie and Jaqe and their daughter Kate cannot live as other people do. Knowing Death, inevitably each of them seeks to use the knowledge, to bargain with Death, and to change the terms in the balance of life and death in the world. Pollack's characters, major and supporting, living, dead, and divine, are memorably human. As she transplants myths and folklore into a modern setting, she gives new life to old tales and a deeper meaning to a seemingly simple world. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel, 1997
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With the incomparable Rachel Pollack nearing the end of her incredible life, I'm re-reading some of my favourite works of hers. This book was so meaningful for me as a teenager, and I was comforted to find that my opinion of it hasn't really changed nearly thirty years down the line. Nineties goddess-centric lesbian fiction at its very best.
