The Adventure of Crow–boy
by David Cook
A new mythology: a fairy is born into the modern realm and faced with the demise of the Natural World. Raised by crows he is caught in a powerful force, what the crows call the Darkening, the loss of story.
You know already, Crow–boy, that when small birds sing they sing their souls. You know how deep are the meanings of our stories. The Darkening is the loss of song and story. The yellow-headed parakeet, the heath hen, the marsh sparrow, the canebrake warbler, the ivory-billed woodpecker, the wood pigeon—they’re gone forever. Their songs and stories are lost, and every such loss to the Earth is a soul loss, an emptiness that cannot be filled, a hunger that cannot be satisfied. There once was a line of songs that would have taken you to find your people, where the fairies went when they left the world, but that line is fragments now.”
For a look at the six oil–paint illustrations in the book visit Susan Beebe’s website.