Best Selling Books by Catherynne M Valente

"Structured around a series of folktale motifs, Valente''s eloquent second full-length poetry collection dissects the perceived roles of women in Earth''s and otherworldly fable and myth.... enlightening and enthralling." "Publishers Weekly."

In the mind of Ayako, an old woman in exile on a mountain in medievalJapan, nothing is certain, and nothing holds a familiar shape for long. This isa map of a psyche exalted and destroyed by solitude, and on its contortedsurface Shinto philosophy, Greek mathematics, Hawaiian goddesses, Egyptianlegend, quantum physics, and Babylonian myth meet and merge... InCatherynne M. Valente''s second novel since the critically acclaimed TheLabyrinth, language and myth construct a strange new geography of theself. This is The Book of Dreams: open it and walk the shadowy paths ofthis extraordinary landscape.