cover image Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Workbook

Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Workbook

Paula Gunn Allen. Beacon Press, $21 (268pp) ISBN 978-0-8070-8103-7

Whatever Allen's source of inspiration may be (she claims to channel the teachings of Native American goddesses), these 21 mythic tales constitute a well-structured feminist guidebook to spiritual realms. (Sept.)