The Falling Woman

Name: The Falling Woman
Author: Pat Murphy
ISBN: 9781480483149

Pat Murphy

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The Falling Woman

Pat Murphy

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#368 of 8,085 books · #70 in Fantasy

Won the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1987). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 3 other awards.

The Falling Woman won the Nebula Award. When night falls over the Yucatan, the archaeologists lay down their tools. But while her colleagues relax, Elizabeth Butler searches for shadows. A famous scientist with a reputation for eccentricity, she carries a strange secret. Where others see nothing but dirt and bones and fragments of pottery, Elizabeth sees shades of the men and women who walked this ground thousands of years before. She can speak to the past—and the past is beginning to speak back. As Elizabeth communes with ghosts, the daughter she abandoned flies to Mexico hoping for a reunion. She finds a mother embroiled in the supernatural, on a quest for the true reason for the Mayans' disappearance. To dig up the truth, the archaeologist who talks to the dead must learn a far more difficult skill: speaking to her daughter.

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