Book Review - Circles of Stone: Anthropology and Birth in One Great Story!
One of my favorite activities is hunting through a used bookstore (with a chai!) and searching for my next great find. During a recent visit to one of my favorite local shops, I serendipitously chose a book off the shelf that held a certain anthropological and feminist appeal. Imagine my utter excitement when I discovered that it contained a multitude of birth stories occurring throughout the evolution of man! Great find for $3! This anthropological fiction book, Circles of Stone by Joan Dahr Lambert, is rooted in historical evidence and theory, such as basing a character off the discovery of "Lucy's" body and theories about how she may have died. The book is broken into three parts, three different but interwoven stories, which take place over the course of major evolutionary changes in prehuman and human history. Part I takes place in the Great Rift Valley of Africa approximately 1-1.5 million years ago, Part II occurs between the Rift Valley and the shores of the Red...