The first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years from
multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire, featuring
Elphaba's granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain.
Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he
began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the
Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz.
But "out of Oz" isn't "gone for good." Maguire's new series, Another
Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our
lives.
Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba's granddaughter,
Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into
the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to
obscure devotional practices.
As the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the
island's civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien
arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and
wellbeing of an entire nation. Is it myth or magic at work, for good or
for ill?
The trilogy Another Day will follow this green-skinned girl from the
island outpost into the unmapped badlands of Maracoor before she learns
how, and becomes ready, to turn her broom homeward, back to her family
and her lover, back to Oz, which--in its beauty, suffering, mystery,
injustice, and possibility--reminds us all too clearly of the troubled
yet sacred terrain of our own lives.
