""I must get away from here or I will die,"" she says.
A quick study, she dreams of leaving the village. But, in secret, Thu, knowing she'll not make a good midwife, gets her older brother to teach her to read. As a girl, Thu is trained by her illiterate mother-the local midwife, family-planner, and abortionist-to follow in her footsteps. The narrator of her own story of rags to riches and back to rags, Thu is an uneasy mix of Louisa May Alcott's Jo and one of Stephen King's adolescent horrors-the blue-eyed daughter of peasants who, right from toddlerhood, yearns for something better. 1990s than 1100s B.C., will take on both Ramses III and the powerful priesthood as she strives for power, fame, and her beloved Egypt. Another lavishly detailed epic of ancient Egypt from the New Zealand-born author of The Twelfth Transforming (1984), etc., as well as Stargate, a 1982 science-fiction title recently made into a movie.
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