Karin Zirk’s new first novel, Falling From the Moon, kept me engaged from first to last page. She poetically explores two characters, Lauren and Sapphire, when they both attend a Gathering in Plumas National Forest in California, a mini-Woodstock, for two weeks. There both wrestle with their own dark night of the soul and learn in the process the liberating joy of self-forgiveness. Both deeply travel the mythic path of the heroine’s journey that draws into their sufferings a host of fascinating characters to both help and hinder their destiny. I cannot wait for Karin’s second novel.
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Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Mythological Studies Pacifica Graduate Institute Author of Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story and The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh.
