The May Queen (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The May Queen Friday, July 31 2009.

• When Molly Underwood was a little girl, her glamorous Auntie May brought her the fairy tale of Thumbelina and said, "Listen up, Molly, because this is the story of your life." Nestled in a sweet little story about a fairy child who was stolen by a toad and swept downriver, were clues to Molly's origins. But she doesn't find out the real story until she is in her thirties, when a family crisis turns her world inside out. Her life, she discovers, is the fairy tale, and the fairy tale is her life. The May Queen is a poignant novel about family secrets and the myths we live by. Written by the celebrated author of How to Ride a Dragon, it explores the healing power of fairy tales, and prompts the reader to ask: "Do these much-maligned stories hide some of our most inadmissible truths? And if so, how do we engage them to see our real predicaments and possibilities?" With a practical understanding of the power of myth and its relevance to everyday life, Michelle Tocher's books offer mythic wisdom and guidance to people who are meeting life's biggest challenges. Her published books include How To Ride A Dragon: Breast Cancer Survivors Tell Their Stories, (Key Porter Books, 2002), Brave Work: A Guide to the Hero's Journey at Work, and A. Seeker's Storybook: Stories for the Working Soul.