Godmother Night Author:Rachel Pollack Over a dozen images and plot ideas from Grimm's Fairy Tales are woven into a contemporary story about two women, their daughter, and Death, who appears in the novel as a diminutive middle-aged lady named Mother Night. Almost a set of short stories, this novel breaks into discrete episodes, centered on identity, love, an... more »d death. Jaqe has no identity until she meets Laurie, introduced and named by Mother Night; in that moment, she knows herself, and that she loves Laurie. But once Mother Night has become part of their lives, Laurie and Jaqe and their daughter Kate cannot live as other people do. Knowing Death, inevitably each of them seeks to use the knowledge, to bargain with Death, and to change the terms in the balance of life and death in the world. Pollack's characters, major and supporting, living, dead, and divine, are memorably human. As she transplants myths and folklore into a modern setting, she gives new life to old tales and a deeper meaning to a seemingly simple world.
1997 World Fantasy Award - Best Novel (Winner) 1996 James Tiptree, Jr. Award - Gender-bending SF (Nomination) 1996 Lambda Award - Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (Nomination)« less