Ice Becomes Water

By Mia Kirsi Stageberg

This tale, set in northern Scandinavia of an imagined past, sometimes slashes forward to a narrator from our time. The story's spirited women and deer live in an ancient North without their men. Sirianna has two daughters; Myla is tender and vulnerable. Kirsi, whose need to go beyond their encampment alters the family's future. Their narrator-descendant, touching a deer's antlers, yearns to know these women's sorrows and joys. Shifts are as unpredictable as northern lights, with mysteries explained in many ways or never explained at all. Here a deer speaks, loves, and has its own wisdom. With many layers, Ice Becomes Water is a tribute to the souls of ancestors, a meditation on loss, and a dance of alternate realities. Not for children. "Magnificent, filled with allegory and story and lyricism." —Barbara Rose Brooker, author of The Viagra Diaries

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mia Kirsi Stageberg
• Release date: Sep 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370810987

Mia Kirsi Stageberg

Mia Kirsi Stageberg’s earliest fiction was published in the New Directions annuals, 1960s and 1970s. She has been a researcher, art writer, cloth sculptor, radio documentarist, editor, creative writing teacher, oral historian, and singer in a few bands. Her work includes a published novel; stories, prose poems, and articles have appeared online and in journals and anthologies. She lives in Japantown, San Francisco and is working on another novel.

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