She wonders if she abandoned a community that needed her. Uprooted is, in part, a reckoning with that decision. Bookish and curious, eager for “a quest worth embarking on,” Olmstead left her hometown of Emmett, a small farming town in the Payette Valley of southwestern Idaho, to attend college on the east coast. Grace Olmstead, author of Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind, recalls a similar longing.

Penelope, which would have gladdended her, He briefly mentions his return home, but instead of staying, he leaves on another adventure.

In one flickering flame, they find Ulysses who, according to Homer’s Odyssey, fought and tricked his way home to Ithaca to reunite with his wife and son. They are false counselors, those who used their intellect and wisdom in life to deceive others and, in hell, must always speak through a flame. In Canto twenty-six of Dante’s Inferno, Virgil and Dante arrive at the eighth chasm and look down on thousands of small flames, appearing as a field of fireflies. I have been inspired from time to time by looking again on this delightful gift.Review of Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behindīuy Now: One of my favorite possessions is an illustrated map of this story by a seventh grade student who imagined the trails of the three princes on their quests. Drawing is a good way to do something with a story you like. I would love to see any reader’s own drawings or paintings depicting any story of the series that inspires their imagination. I wish nothing to hinder your own immersion in the stories for themselves I would say that if these drawings detract from your imagining these adventures that you please not bother with them. Their sole virtue is their sense of the story and characters and not in the perfection of their artistry. The line-drawings accompanying the chapters are examples of my own sketches in an attempt to share a personal vision of these tales as intimately as I might. Though I conceived the outside cover for The Witch’s Tower, I desired that an artist more gifted in the style and color I envisioned be commissioned for it.

Bridge of Fates by P.J. Reed