Mia Kirsi Stageberg: 2 books

A restless young man leaves his stark homeland to travel across entire continents. He seeks something he can't define, and after a stint in the circus he moves on, driving camels and wandering with deer hunters. When he meets a startling, isolated woman healer in the far North, he's taken aback—even...

This tale, set in northern Scandinavia of an imagined past, sometimes slashes forward to a narrator from our time. The story's spirited women and deer live in an ancient North without their men. Sirianna has two daughters; Myla is tender and vulnerable. Kirsi, whose need to go beyond their encampment...