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Sistren
"Compassionately written story
of
spiritual rebirth."
-- Kirkus Discoveries
One reviewer
says, "Buy this book. Give yourself an uninterrupted evening to read
it."
In the wake of
her sister Erika’s violent death, Nina Temple leaves her
home
and family and crosses the country to sift through the remnants of a
life. She uncovers a past she doesn’t recognize, an ancestry scarred by
judgment and secrets. Enduring shock after shock, plagued by dreams,
Nina comes unmoored from her sensible, orderly world and does
unthinkable things. Is it possible that her sister’s consciousness
lingers in the home where she died? And can Nina escape the pattern of
generations and step into her own power?
Like so many of us, Nina receives
a summons
from the Great Below – the darkness, the other, the hidden parts of the
self. Her inner journey mirrors the Sumerian Descent of Inanna, that
ancient, mythic venture into the underworld to make the connection
between conscious and unconscious that opens the way for wisdom. Like
Inanna, Nina is stripped of her defenses, lost, and then reborn through
compassion into a larger self.
Beautiful cover art by Sylvan
Thorncraft. See more of her work at Emerald Sprite Studios.
Moon
Passage
Also published in Italy, Germany and France;
optioned by Hearst Entertainment.
Reviews of Moon
Passage:
“…a sublimely
written and deeply satisfying first novel.”
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
“In the
tradition of Virginia Woolf, Katharine Anne Porter and, more
recently, Alice Walker, Jane LeCompte presents an intimate tale of one
woman’s self-discovery…”
-- Boston Herald
“In an age of
change, when women have been engaged in examining and
redefining their relations – with kith and kin and myth – Jane LeCompte
has written a subtle first novel that brillantly evokes that process.” full
review
-- NewYork Times Book Review
“[Jane
LeCompte’s] taut phrases are elaborated with the patience and
brightness of a goldsmith.”
--
Associated Press
“Moon Passage is a first novel
of unusual lyric beauty and warmth.”
-- Washington Post
Books written
as Jane Ashford
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