The Gift of Women

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George McWhirter grounds his delightful characters in the real, while his sharp wit and creative scenarios border on the fantastical: a woman adopts a dolphin-man, an Irish madam runs a railroad bordello in the desert, a devoted husband drives his childless, belly-dancing wife to Greek tavernas with the ambition to quicken their lagging fertility, a Kurdish barber has a cure for hair loss, but not the loss of his wife and family in Iraq, a Mexican campesino swears his machete-severed ear is a sea shell tuned to the Pacific Ocean. The Gift of Women is about religion and sexuality, the surreal and the magical, a tale-telling of earthy and incendiary women, capable of setting a man, a valley, and an entire island on fire.