Fortune's Daughter

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1985). First Edition. Hardcover. [faint shelfwear, very slight bump to top rear corner; the jacket shows only a trace of handling wear]. "A modern chronicle of witches and midwives and a female mythology that has been passed down through generations," charting "the histories of two women. Rae, young and unmarried and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, has lost her own daughter more than a quarter century earlier, on the coldest day ever recorded in New York City." .