270 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 2001 by Mariner Book.
Charlotte Bridger Drummond is a free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing woman who pens popular women's adventure stories on the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s. When a little girl gets lost in the woods, Charlotte anxiously joins the search, where she becomes lost and falls into the company of an elusive band of giants.
A wild mix of traditional mythology with unconventional values and a deep love of northwestern nature, so intensely imagined it boggles the mind in phases.
A quite bizarre and wonderful book. The first section has an independent woman managing to support her family in the early 20th century by writing pulp fiction. It shifts into something of a mystery, with her searching for a lost child, and then becomes a meditation on consciousness and the legend of Sasquatch. Gloss is such an amazing writer. I've loved every one of her books, and they're quite different from each other.
