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The Wood Wife

Author(s): Terri Windling

Location(s): Tucson, Arizona

Genre(s): Fantasy

Era(s): 1990s

A magical realist novel set in the Rincon Mountains of Tucson, Arizona, involing poetry, art and the mythic spirits of the desert. (I bought my copy in the shop of the Tucson Desert Museum.) The author has won 9 World Fantasy Awards, and this book won the Mythopoeic Award.

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