Hi again.
The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
is one of a few novels dealing with a hidden people
in the Southern mountains. I believe there two
more novels in this series.
I had read this before and enjoyed re-reading
it after a couple of years.
This is a theme in Speculative Fiction a hidden
folk either benign or maleficent but not like the
the incoming Europeans.
The Tufa is what this particular group are
called and they are ruled by song. Generally they
are black-haired with ivory skin, in their public
presentations. They are not Christian nor do
Christian churches thrive in their territories.
The story begins as one who has left the
area and been wounded in the Iraqi war, returns
as a hero promoted by the Military a woman
rescued after living through a IED explosion
killing 10 jihadis and been raped by her captors
Her Iraqi doctor having done all he could
for her wounds was killed along with hospital
staff by US Marines before the doctor could
arrange a peaceful transfer back to US
care.
So from the ludicrous parade watched
mostly by the Press to the end of the book
when she extirpates a bad apple, the Tufa
and their secrets are uncovered for us.
I thought it was worth the read but audience
vary and I am quite an easy one. <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum_and_the_Shiver>
As I read the discription I recall a boy in
my youth late 20 who had black hair and ivory skin.
Later he had an accident in a jeep and ended up with no
memory of the time before the accident.
bliss - wishing all a peaceful sleep...
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