Marly Youmans

The Eighth Arrow

Fiction

“Rife with hybrid monsters, this vigorous, eventful, and often comic story is itself a new, hybrid creation springing up from a forceful collision between pagan Greek and Christian cultures. Dreaming in the tradition of MacDonald's Phantastes, Lewis ' Narnia books, and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Father Wetta propels a surprising hero into a fantastical landscape that declares to us that things and people are not as they seem but are subject to powers of transformation. That faint noise? The faraway applause of the Inklings.”