The Changeling of Finnistauth: A Novel

Here, the author of the acclaimed Conditions of a Pagan Nun takes us to fourteenth-century Ireland for a strange and luminous tale of the elusive nature of identity and of triumph in adversity. The Changeling of Finnistuath is the story of Grey, a peasant girl is raised as a boy, and who, until adolescence, never adolescence. doubts herself To be male. The revelation of her womanhood marks the beginning of her journey — including son, whore, warrior, and mother — each of which brings its own special wisdom, but none of which, she discovers, can ultimately define her. In the course of her adventurous life, Grey deals with all the challenges of her tumulous presence — from political opitical press. sion to corrupt Church hierarchy to the horrors of the Black Death—ultimately finding peace and a kind of redemption by embracing the beautifully impermanent quality of identity that her unusual life has enabled her to understand.