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...Place Where the Sea Remembers begins with a wonderful evocation of the sea, as Remedios, a healer-woman, meditates on its shores, contemplating its ability to hold memories of lives past. To make the sea yield up its stories, she touches its saltiness to her tongue, and lets it speak through her in an extended flashback that makes up the novel...
...latent existence. Remedios provides a superficial and irritating Great Earth Mother feel to A Place Where the Sea Remembers, the blurb on the book's jacket waxes fulsome over the "secret dreams and desires known only to the omniscient sea and to the curandera Remedios' a healer who hears them all." Remedios' chants sound like the most simplistic of goddess workshop: "I am she who knows. I am bone woman. I am bird woman. I am she-woman. He-woman. I am moon woman. Sun woman. Star woman. I am she who weeps. She who bleeds...
...Actually, he probably could have played a week after the injury--quite a quick healer," Tomassoni said. "But all night long he was one of the better players on the ice, and we're glad to have him back...
Curiously, all three women enter into friendships with Zenia entirely aware of her reputation. This principal conceit is the most glaring flaw in this generally good novel. Even Charis, resident healer and spiritual expert, who judges people based upon their aureal colors, can't seem to tell when Zenia's automatically destructive powers are levelled at her. At one point, these are described as "waves of ill will flow[ing] out of her like cosmic radiation...
...tongue. But the unconscious is not a passive stowaway on the voyage of life; it has the power to make its hosts feel very sad or behave in strange, self-destructive ways. When that happens, one recourse is to go to the office of a specially trained healer, lie down on a couch and start talking...