The Falling Woman

I loved this book. It reminded me of the style of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. It has phenomenal prose with a terrific story. The setting of the story is in an ancient Mayan ruin in the Yucatan peninsula. It is a tale of an archeologist and her estranged daughter wrapped in the supernatural and Mayan mythology. I was really emotionally moved by the mother-daughter relationship tale and gripped by the mystery of the spirits of the ruins. I read this book in two days thanks to a snowstorm that kept me home from work one day... The author is a co-founder of the James Tiptree Award, now known as the Sideways Award, which honors books that explore or expand on the understanding of gender in science fiction and fantasy. This book won Murphy the Nebula Award for 1987 and was also nominated for the Mythopoeic Award.

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