First published 1989
Jennifer Mazdan lives in an America where magic flows as freely as traffic through city streets. Shopping centers sit beside temples where modern storytellers recite ancient tales of the Founders. Television broadcasts compete with genuine miracles for public attention. Jennie listens to these stories like everyone else, accepting the supernatural as ordinary fact. Then her own life turns strange. She becomes pregnant through a dream, carrying a child conceived in sleep rather than flesh. This impossible pregnancy pulls her into forces she never understood. The Founders' mythology suddenly becomes personal. Her body changes in ways that defy explanation. Her life hangs in the balance as she confronts powers that shaped her world. Everything she believed about the stories, about magic, about herself begins to crumble. Jennie must navigate between the miraculous and the mundane to survive what she has become.
Genres: literary-fiction, fantasy, contemporary, magical-realism
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: chosen-one, unreliable-narrator
Setting: America
Period: Contemporary
400 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Legend