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GICHI MANIDOO BY CHARLES J. MUSSER

ARTWORK BY NANCY APHRODITAE

One will find himself quite hard pressed to classify, categorize, or even adequately describe the incredibly artful work of fiction, Gichi Manidoo, written by Charles J. Musser, with beautiful cover and interior illustrations created by Nancy Aphroditae. The exquisitely designed cover features a radiantly feathered dreamcatcher with blue butterflies, and this might suggest one difficulty for pinning this book down. With its story comprised largely of a surrealistic quest through a dreamlike, magical realm of reality beyond but somehow proximate to our own, yet founded on a plot firmly grounded in contemporary daily life, with a too familiar theme of jealousy and attempted murder, and also true love between a woman and a man, one may be at a loss – or simply unable – to offer any concise synopsis.

There is far more going on in Charles J. Musser’s magical/realistic book, Gichi Manidoo, than jealousy and love, than a woman and a man, than this realm or the next. First, the reader must absolve himself from maintaining any linear understanding of the plot (which often becomes quite immaterial, literally) and surrender to the spiritually resonating elements of those interrelated beings from both sides of reality. In other words, quite often the best way to appreciate this truly unique, deeply impressive work, is simply to let go and float upon the spellbinding words propelling this mostly transcendent story. Musser will bring you back to Earth. He does not leave you dangling in ambiguity. You may never quite nail down what occurs, but you will experience resolution. In all, perhaps a book best experienced than simply read.    

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