SPINNING WOOL
in the Mouth of the Monster
A Standalone Novel

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Spinning Wool in the Mouth of the Monster is a contemporary mainstream novel of female adventure and self-discovery set in the crucible of the Kosovo Crisis.

Silhouette of person exiting building
Deborah in doorway of old Shkoder fort.
Scenic mountain view with two hikers
Deborah crossed this mountain pass with these friends into Rrogam; Spinning Wool's heroine crossed one like it into Kosovo.

Nancy Pelham is determined to reclaim hidden roots from her parents' homeland. At the height of the Kosovo Crisis she plunges straight from medical school in New York into awork at a refugee camp in Albania. When newly discovered relatives die there in her arms, she vows to recover the child torn from them in their flight--and ends up braving the war zone itself . . . with a disquietingly attractive documenter of war crimes who looks disquietingly like the Serbs she has come to hate. 

 

Their uneasily conjoined quests lead them to her grandmother’s high mountain village, the danger-girt hideout of the lost child, and a showdown with the dark half of himself her companion hopes to destroy.

Scenic view of mountains and valley
The mountains behind Bajram Curri, beckoning the heroine of Spinning Wool in to seek her relatives.
Stone house amidst alpine scenery
A kulla like this, a refuge tower for blood feud targets to hide in by day, haunted Spinning Wool's heroine on her midnight flight to the highlands.

 

Then Nancy learns that her long-lost uncle is threatened by the ancient blood feud, and she herself must face a grueling showdown with demons both personal and ancient.