The Brides of Maracoor: Follows the Granddaughter of Elphaba, Oz's Wicked Witch of the West, a Spinoff of the Epic Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture-Now Streaming (Another Day, 1)

ISBN: 0063093979

Author: Maguire, Gregory

Condition: New

From the Epic Inpsiration of the Major Motion Picture-Now StreamingThe first in a three-book epic fantasy series spun off the iconic Wicked Years from multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire, featuring Elphabas granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain.An exquisitely crafted introduction to a new fantasy trilogy. - PeopleOver a decade ago, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz.But out of Oz isnt gone for good. Maguires new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives.Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphabas granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices.As the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the islands civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the political stability and wellbeing of an entire nation. Is it myth or magic at work, for good or for ill?The trilogy Another Day follows this green-skinned girl from the island outpost into the unmapped badlands of Maracoor before she learns how, and becomes ready, to turn her broom homeward, back to her family and her lover, back to Oz, which-in its beauty, suffering, myth and magic, mystery, injustice, and possibility-reminds us all too clearly of the troubled yet sacred terrain of our own lives.