The Widening Gyre

“In times of great trouble, great dreams come.” Jane has spent years trying to forget such dreams. Her dreams are not pleasant; yet beautiful in their way. When such dreams keep coming, she decides it is time to pay attention to the dance she in which she finds herself. Each dream is heralded by the image of a white bird, symbolic of the dissociative state resorted to by many victims of abuse.

What has happened to Jane? “All voices sing in unison: get out get out get out escape escape escape…” but violence and death stalk Jane along every bend of every way out….

“A woman’s murder is the essence of the mundane.” The most maddening of crimes is surely child abduction. Yet, for five sane, beautiful years, Alma and young Pira have lived and laughed in their remote asylum high in the Mayan mountains, blessed by *la chiripa*, the stroke of luck--until the searchlight of chance flicks across their lives and sends a deadly signal to their oppressor.