Tales of Gletha the Goatlady: Parables from the Heart Land

Tales of Gletha the Goatlady: Parables from the Heart Land by Roger Robbennolt. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780939516148.

Some thought she was a witch. For others Gletha was the image of God. But no one in Bear Run Township was untouched by the mysterious goatlady. In the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien, Madeleine LEngle and C.S. Lewis, Roger Robbennolt has fashioned this collection of children stories for adults. In recounting childhood experiences as "autobiographical mythologies," Robbennolt offers a place of refuge where the child within each of us can find healing. Yet these tales go much further. Sharply honed images weave together laughter and tears to both amuse and call forth compassion and a fuller insight into the human condition. They are light-hearted tales, yet they evoke a response of deep and genuine human emotion from which the reader emerges with a sense of affirmation and wholeness.