The God of the Woods: A Novel Emily Itami whose obsession with martyrs leads

whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying

sprightly behavior

the ghost of a witch murdered by colonists claimed the beautiful and fertile Wild Hill…until a young Scottish woman with strange gifts arrived

to find her peace

She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house

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