cover image Mother Earth Father Sky

Mother Earth Father Sky

Sue Harrison. Avon Books, $7.99 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71592-3

Chagak, a primitive Amerindian woman, survives the massacre of her tribe and family and later challenges gender roles by learning to be both child-bearer and hunter. According to PW , the ``childlike language, slow-paced plot and unsophisticated characterizations'' here are no threat to Jean Auel's novels of the prehistoric wilderness. (Sept.)