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Article: Three new novels offer escape that are pure fantasy: `April Witch,' `The Alchemist,' `The Children of Cthulhu'.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- July 24, 2002
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New books of science fiction and fantasy take readers to an eerie world of everyday magic, to one of Egyptian time travel, and to others of pure horror.
_``April Witch'' by Majgull Axelsson; Villard ($24.95)
In a nursing home, a paralyzed middle-age woman seethes with bitterness about the daily humiliations she must endure. Worst of all is the insult dating from her very birth _ her mother gave her up to be institutionalized for life because of her handicaps, yet took in three foster girls.
Which girl, Desiree wonders, got the life she would have had if her mother had kept her? In collaboration with a doctor who knows her family history, she ...