Dagmar's Daughter Author:Kim Echlin Kim Echlin's second novel, Dagmar's Daughter, draws on ancient Sumerian and Greek myths to tell a tale of three generations of women on a tiny, remote, and fictional island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, off Canada's East Coast. Norea, the oldest of the three, escapes the crushing poverty of her native Ireland by stealing her ... more »mother's boots from her coffin just before burial and hopping a boat to Canada. Dagmar, her daughter, has strange powers to influence the weather and grow plants. She falls in love with a charming rogue named Colin who fathers a son and a daughter. The girl, named Nyssa, grows up to be a talented fiddle player and gets involved with an older musician who had once loved her mother. Nyssa also pursues her dangerous fascination with the island's oddest character, Moll, a self-mutilating crone who harbours mysterious powers of healing and destruction.« less