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Well, it hasn’t all been Nick Hornby this month. Last week I read two of the books from my March TBR stack and both of them were the kind of book you fall into headfirst and feel dazed when, hours later, you come up for air. That’s about the only thing they have in common. The first was Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time. I bought a copy last year when Jane was reading a lot of books from the Ambleside Year 7 list. We don’t “do” Ambleside but we mine those booklists for all we’re worth. (Thanks again, women-behind-Ambleside, for putting treasure in our path once more.)

Jane has probably read Daughter of Time half a dozen times in the past year. Now I see why. I’m enormously impressed that Tey was able to pull off having a mystery novel take place entirely in one room—in one hospital bed, really—and have the mystery revolve around a five-hundred-year-old bit of English history, and wind up with not one millisecond of dull moment in the whole book. That’s quite a feat.

It’s hard to say anything about this book, and how fascinating it was, without giving things away. I think I can safely say this much: the novel is about a Scotland Yard policeman, Alan Grant, who is convalescing from a serious back injury after an on-the-job fall. He’s bored and irritable, and his actress friend—aware of his interest in faces as revealers of character—brings him a stack of portraits of historical figures connected with mysteries of one kind and another. Grant’s attention is captured by a portrait of Richard III—you can see the very one here—whose serious and sensitive expression does not gel with Grant’s understanding of the man as a monster who ordered the murder of his nephews to secure his own place on the throne. Despite being stuck flat on his back, subject to the ministrations of businesslike nurses, Grant-the-policeman opens an investigation, as it were. He wants to know the facts behind the case against Richard III.

Have I said too much? I hope not. The real magic of this novel is the gradual unraveling of the ancient mystery, the poking through old letters and town records to get at the truth. (Grant ropes in a volunteer to do the leg work, and here I felt a sharp stab of deja vu, because that’s exactly how I managed the research for Little House in the Highlands. Jane was stuck in the hospital, getting chemo, and I had a researcher in Edinburgh who would take my daily battery of questions and go look up the answers for me, and then she’d send me sheaves of articles and impenetrable scholarly documents to pore through at night beside my baby’s hospital bed. So Grant’s fascination, his obsession really, rang very true to me. There’s nothing like a treasure hunt to get you through long days and nights in a hospital.)

About the mystery (skip to the next paragraph if you don’t want spoilers)—did we all know this already? I was blown away by the revealed truth. But then, everything I knew about Richard III I learned from Shakespeare, and now I realize Shakespeare got the Tudor-approved version of the story. Not that Shakespeare was ever particularly interested in accuracy. He was after compelling drama, and that he certainly succeeded in creating with his version of Richard III.

After Daughter of Time, I turned to Suzanne Collins’s recent YA thriller The Hunger Games. Wow. Going just on its premise, I wasn’t sure I would be recommending it to Jane, but by the end of the book I was as eager for her to read it as she’d been for me to pick up Daughter of Time. I’m thinking it’s too dark for my sensitive Rose, at this point (she’s only ten anyway; not exactly the YA audience).

All the kidlit bloggers were raving about Hunger Games this past year, but I didn’t read any of the reviews. You know how I feel about spoilers. What I gathered from skimming past was that it was grim and gripping and well written, and that it was about (click away right now if you don’t want to know) a future dystopia whose government hosts mandatory annual ‘games’ in which 24 teenagers (chosen by lottery) must fight to the death. As if that weren’t chilling enough, every moment (as the publisher’s website blinks at us in creepy TV-static text) is televised. So, yes, as you’re fighting for your life in a wilderness arena, liable to fall victim to starvation, dehydration, wildfire, wild beasts, or treacherous terrain if your teenage competitors don’t brain you first, your family back home is watching. Grim is too weak a word.

But it was great storytelling and, in these days of creeping privacy erosion and reality-show entertainments, there is much food for thought in this novel. Jane and I (and Scott read it too) have been discussing it for days. The ending leaves you hanging a bit, just a warning. I figure if you’re still reading this post, you’re the kind of reader who appreciates a warning.

I believe The Hunger Games is being made into a movie, and if I have any complaints about the book, it’s only that it felt self-consciously cinematic, as if the author were keenly aware as she wrote that the story was a shoo-in for film adaptation. But I want to say (to myself) that that supposition is actually a too-shallow reading of the cinematic quality: the self-consciousness is part of the point. The heroine knows she is being filmed, knows her reactions to arena events will affect her audience in certain ways and will in fact have a material affect on her own situation. If her anonymous sponsors like what she’s doing, they may choose to send her food or supplies. Her fight for survival, therefore, happens on two levels. She must literally fight her opponents in the arena, but she must also fight her fears and fatigue and desire for privacy and even, sometimes, her sense of honor and decency, in order to turn in the right sort of performance, because her life depends as much on audience approval as anything else. This is complicated stuff, and it’s part of what makes the book so powerful.

So: highly recommended, but, you know, with caveats for the very young or very sensitive. After all, it’s kids killing kids because their government makes them do so. Not exactly the stuff of which bedtime stories are made.

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  1. Kathryn says:

    I’ve had The Daughter of Time on my shelf for ever but have never read it. Must add it to my list.

  2. Sara says:

    Your book reviews are so amazing that I want to read practically everything you read. That is, if you liked it! I re-read A Girl of the Limberlost last week and was at a total loss as to how to describe it on my blog. I’m obviously NOT a writer. Just a reader!

    My 13 yo son has just finished both MBS books and enjoyed them thoroughly. He read those big books in 2 days each!

  3. radmama says:

    I just read and loved Daughter of Time, thanks to your blog. Cannot believe I had not discovered Josephine Tey before now! Thank you.

    Also devoured Austenland, which I found here and Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict.. was that also one of your reads?

  4. Kelly says:

    The sequel to Hunger Games (Catching Fire, I think) will be out in September. Cannot wait! And now I need to read Daughter of Time, which I own and have not yet read. You’re the second person to talk about how fantastic it is and now I feel left out.

  5. Kay says:

    Yes, thanks again. Both my kids were in a community performance of Richard III this winter and after 17 shows they were ready to let all the dead people go:)
    Anna played one of the smothered Princes of the Tower and returned as a ghost, as well as Clarence’s daughter. Will was cast in many small roles but too got killed in the final battle. Stage choreography was the fun part for him and after seeing three of the shows I finally was “enjoying” the play.

    With that said Daughter of Time is a fantastic follow up for our understanding of Richard III. Shakespeare was so much a politician and knew where his pay check came from.
    So great Daughter of Time crossed your reading table to end up in your blog. I too love your reviews and follow the trails with pleasure. They are always a great “fit” for our family.
    Thank you.

  6. Kay says:

    Hi, Forgot to mention Daughter of Time also turned into a facinating research project on Tey.

  7. Melissa Wiley says:

    Kay, that sounds really interesting. I’d love to hear more!

    Kathryn, I think Daughter of Time would be right up your alley, given your love of English history and literature.

    Radmama, yes, I read Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict earlier this month. I didn’t like it much. Thought Austenland was much better. What did you think? I did enjoy the dip into Regency England; that’s always a treat. But I kept waiting to hear that Jane’s father had made a similar journey to another time. I thought maybe that’s where he picked up on abstract painting.

  8. Marsha says:

    oh no!! You know I havve this little addiction to YA books? Good ones, that is. I read Cynthia Lord’s book recommended by you, and now I’m off to find the two mentioned here, at least the first one!!

    (I read all of Gene Stratton Porter’s when I was young, and am recreating that library now as well)

  9. Theresa says:

    Those both sound great. Adding to the list!

  10. Meredith says:

    The Tey’s been in my bedside basket for weeks, I can’t wait to read it, pre-reading for my Violet too :))

  11. MelanieB says:

    Oooh two books I thoroughly enjoyed. I’m glad though that I got to them before you did. I read both of them with no prior knowledge and preconceptions and I like the raw experience. Then I like finding reviews afterward by sympathetic minds so I can compare notes.

    Daughter of Time set me off on a Tey binge last year. I’ve enjoyed all of her books; but it’s still my favorite. Like you I love the way she pulled off the one-room location and the depth of the historical quest. Interesting parallel with your Martha research.

    I got the Hunger Games as an Amazon Vine review copy so had no information about it except the publisher’s blurb that made me pick the book from the list. I didn’t every realize it was a YA book until I was part way in. I think I might have experienced it differently if I’d come across it knowing it was a much discussed item on the kid lit blogs. Maybe I’ll have to go and hunt up other reviews. I don’t think I thought about it nearly enough as I read, partly because I had no one to share it with. It was another of those gulped books and it does merit further attention.

  12. Melissa Wiley says:

    Melanie, you’ve hit upon my central dilemma in blogging about books. Like you, I like to encounter a book without knowing too much, so that I often avoid reviews about books I think I might want to read. But I really love and thrive on discussion about books—both reading it and writing it—and so there’s that constant dance, trying to read just enough of a recommendation to let me determine whether I want to add the book to the pile, but not enough so that my experience of the book itself is altered by foreknowledge.

    (I do tend to read Hornby’s entire discussions in advance, because he picks so many books I’ve never heard of, and I enjoy his commentary quite as much as I’d likely enjoy the books themselves.)

    Also like you, I love to read reviews & commentary AFTER I’ve had a chance to read a book and ponder it a while.

    But with such strong personal preference for, as you put it, the raw experience of the book, I find myself completely at sea in the question of ‘to blog or not to blog’? Blogging is such a great medium for sharing one’s book enthusiasms. But in writing these posts, am I robbing readers of the chance to have their own raw encounters with the titles I recommend? LOL. Well, I figure it’s up to each of us as individual readers to set and guard our own spoiler limits.

    Regarding Hunger Games—for about the first half of the book, I kept looking up from its pages and muttering to Scott, “I don’t get why this is YA. It’s so grim.” But in the end, I do think it belongs in that genre, just as The Giver does. Adolescence is a time when many readers want and indeed *need* to dive into heavy issues.

  13. Beck says:

    I went through a big Josephine Tey kick a while back. I did disagree with what she ultimately decided about Richard III – note my tactful, non-spoiler-giving way of saying that!

    Hunger Games sounds interesting, too.

  14. radmama says:

    I just finished a political theory class that fit nicely with Confessions, but I had mixed feelings about the book. I can see what the author was trying to do with regards to conceptions of identity and time,which was distracting. Mostly, it felt unfinished.

    Austenland was a fun read. The unfortunate part of both was that any Austen fan could predict the resolution very early in the book. you Not sure if I love either book, but they were entertaining.

    I just finished American Bloomsbury. Disappointing writing, fascinating facts. Now resuming to work through a load of L’Engle before my maternity leave ends.

  15. jen says:

    I’ll skip reading closely to keep the mystery, but wanted to say that I had moved Daughter of Time around the house for awhile after getting it as a bargain book years ago, but never read it. I’ll have to find it and give it another try.

  16. Beth says:

    I am thoroughly enjoying your book-reading posts, and just wanted to let you know. Feel free to write more! We’re going through a rough time, here, and I can settle to very little, though I could use the respite, and these posts are strangely suitable.

    I read Daughter of Time when I was in my teens — my grandmother read it after her heart attack and loved it and gave it to me, and I loved it as well. Perhaps it would be the thing to reread now …

  17. Melissa Wiley says:

    OK, Beck, I’m totally intrigued. Would love to hear your take on it. Perhaps in cryptic tweets so as not to spoil mysteries for anyone. 😉

    Beth: thanks for your kind words. And sending a hug your way.

  18. radmama says:

    Did you recently read The Thirteenth Tale or is that on the TBR pile?

  19. Melissa Wiley says:

    It’s still in the pile. Actually it had moved to the top spot, but then all these libraries books came in and bumped it back down.

  20. Sherry Early says:

    I love Daughter of Time; it’s on my best fiction ever list. And Hunger Games was a compelling read.

    I must say that I get that “cinematic” feeling from a lot of books written in the last twenty years or so. Quick scene changes, very visual descriptions, lots of dialog, cliffhangers, etc. I think some writers can’t decide whether they’re writing a screenplay or a novel. Sometimes it’s distracting, but I didn’t notice it so much in Hunger Games.

  21. radmama says:

    I really enjoyed it and I’m looking forward to your review.

  22. hopeinbrazil says:

    Thanks for lovely reviews on two books I’m barely familiar with.

  23. DebD says:

    coming over from Semicolon’s blog:

    I read Daughter of Time a few years ago and agree with your review – loved it. Hunger Games looks very interesting. Thanks for the review.


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Cross-cultural psychiatry (also known as Ethnopsychiatry or transcultural psychiatry or cultural psychiatry) is a branch of psychiatry concerned with the cultural context of mental disorders and the challenges of addressing ethnic diversity in psychiatric services. It emerged as a coherent field from several strands of work, including surveys of the prevalence and form of disorders in different cultures or countries; the study of migrant populations and ethnic diversity within countries; and analysis of psychiatry itself as a cultural product.

The early literature was associated with colonialism and with observations by asylum psychiatrists or anthropologists who tended to assume the universal applicability of Western psychiatric diagnostic categories. A seminal paper by Arthur Kleinman in 1977 followed by a renewed dialogue between anthropology and psychiatry, is seen as having heralded a “new cross-cultural psychiatry”. However, Kleinman later pointed out that culture often became incorporated in only superficial ways, and that for example 90% of DSM-IV categories are culture-bound to North America and Western Europe, and yet the “culture-bound syndrome” label is only applied to “exotic” conditions outside Euro-American society. Reflecting advances in medical anthropology, DSM-5 replaced the term “culture-bound syndrome” with a set of terms covering cultural concepts of distress: cultural syndromes (which may not be bound to a specific culture but circulate across cultures); cultural idioms of distress (local modes of expressing suffering that may not be syndromes); causal explanations (that attribute symptoms or suffering to specific causal factors rooted in local ontologies); and folk diagnostic categories (which may be part of ethnomedical systems and healing practices).

Cultural psychiatry looks at whether psychiatric classifications of disorders are appropriate to different cultures or ethnic groups. It often argues that psychiatric illnesses represent social constructs as well as genuine medical conditions, and as such have social uses peculiar to the social groups in which they are created and legitimized. It studies psychiatric classifications in different cultures, whether informal (e.g. category terms used in different languages) or formal (for example the World Health Organisation’s ICD, the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM, or the Chinese Society of Psychiatry’s CCMD). The field has increasingly had to address the process of globalisation. It is said every city has a different culture and that the urban environment, and how people adapt or struggle to adapt to it, can play a crucial role in the onset or worsening of mental illness.

However, some scholars developing an anthropology of mental illness consider that attention to culture is not enough if it is decontextualised from historical events, and history in more general sense. An historical and politically informed perspective can counteract some of the risks related to promoting universalised ‘global mental health’ programmes as well as the increasing hegemony of diagnostic categories such as PTSD (Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman analyse this issue in their book ‘The Empire of Trauma’). Roberto Beneduce, who devoted many years to research and clinical practice in West Africa (Mali, among the Dogon) and in Italy with migrants, strongly emphasizes this shift. Inspired by the thought of Frantz Fanon, Beneduce points to forms of historical consciousness and selfhood as well as history-related suffering as central dimensions of a ‘critical ethnopsychiatry’ or ‘critical transcultural psychiatry’.

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As a named field within the larger discipline of psychiatry, cultural psychiatry has a relatively short history. In 1955, a program in transcultural psychiatry was established at McGill University in Montreal by Eric Wittkower from psychiatry and Jacob Fried from the department of anthropology. In 1957, at the International Psychiatric Congress in Zurich, Wittkower organised a meeting that was attended by psychiatrists from 20 countries, including many who became major contributors to the field of cultural psychiatry: Tsung-Yi Lin (Taiwan), Thomas Lambo (Nigeria), Morris Carstairs (Britain), Carlos Alberto Seguin (Peru) and Pow-Meng Yap (Hong Kong). The American Psychiatric Association established a Committee on Transcultural Psychiatry in 1964, followed by the Canadian Psychiatric Association in 1967. H.B.M. Murphy of McGill founded the World Psychiatric Association Section on Transcultural Psychiatry in 1970. By the mid-1970s there were active transcultural psychiatry societies in England, France, Italy and Cuba. There are several scientific journals devoted to cross-cultural issues: Transcultural Psychiatry (est. 1956, originally as Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, and now the official journal of the WPA Section on Transcultural Psychiatry), Psychopathologie Africaine (1965), Culture Medicine & Psychiatry (1977), Curare (1978), and World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review (2006). The Foundation for Psychocultural Research at UCLA has published an important volume on psychocultural aspects of trauma and most recently the landmark volumes entitled Formative Experiences: the Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology edited by Carol Worthman, Paul Plotsky, Daniel Schechter and Constance Cummings. and Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer, Robert Lemelson and Constance Cummings.

It is argued that a cultural perspective can help psychiatrists become aware of the hidden assumptions and limitations of current psychiatric theory and practice and can identify new approaches appropriate for treating the increasingly diverse populations seen in psychiatric services around the world. The recent revision of the nosology of the American Psychiatric Association, DSM-5, includes a Cultural Formulation Interview that aims to help clinicians contextualise diagnostic assessment. A related approach to cultural assessment involves cultural consultation which works with interpreters and cultural brokers to develop a cultural formulation and treatment plan that can assist clinicians.

The main professional organisations devoted to the field are the WPA Section on Transcultural Psychiatry, the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture, and the World Association for Cultural Psychiatry. Many other mental health organisations have interest groups or sections devoted to issues of culture and mental health.

There are active research and training programs in cultural psychiatry at several academic centres around the world, notably the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, and University College London. Other organisations are devoted to cross-cultural adaptation of research and clinical methods. In 1993 the Transcultural Psychosocial Organisation (TPO) was founded. The TPO has developed a system of intervention aimed at countries with little or no mental health care. They train local people to become mental health workers, often using people who previously have provided mental health guidance of some kind. The TPO provides training material that is adapted to local culture, language and distinct traumatic events that might have occurred in the region where the organisation is operating. Avoiding Western approaches to mental health, the TPO sets up what becomes a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) that is self-sustainable, as well as economically and politically independent of any state. The TPO projects have been successful in both Uganda and Cambodia.

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All-new Mercedes-Benz GLE fights for the 2019 World Car Of The Year award

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The contenders for the 2019 World Car of the Year award have been announced. Among the nominees we also find the all-new Mercedes-Benz GLE. The title will be awarded according to tradition at the New York Motor Show on April 19th.

The jury will meet at the Paris Auto Show next month to announce the first eligible cars list. The second step towards the final is the announcement of the top ten nominees for the top prize and top five for the other categories after the first round of test drives in LA, programmed for November. Then, prior to the New York ceremony next April, we will find out which are the top three finalists in all award categories at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2019.

However, until then, let’s meet the current eligible model of each category (top prize, Luxury, Performance, Green, and Urban categories) elected by the jury of 75 international automotive journalists.

World Luxury Car of the Year
Audi A7
Audi Q8
BMW 8 Series
Mercedes-Benz GLE
Volkswagen Touareg

Official: the new Mercedes GLE – option for 7 seats and innovative active suspension

World Car of the Year
Acura RDX
Audi e-tron
Audi A1
Audi A6
Audi Q3
BMW 3 Series
BMW i8 Roadster
Cadillac XT4
Citroen C5 Aircross
Dacia Duster
Ford Focus
Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid
Hyundai Santa Fe
Hyundai Nexo
Infiniti QX50
Jaguar E-Pace
Jaguar I-Pace
Jeep Cherokee
Jeep Wrangler
Kia Ceed/Forte
Kia Niro EV
Kia Soul
Lexus ES
Lexus UX
Nissan Altima
Nissan Kicks
SEAT Arona
Subaru Forester
Suzuki Jimny
Toyota Avalon
Toyota Corolla
Toyota RAV4
Volvo S60/V60
Volvo XC40

World Performance Car of the Year
Aston Martin Vantage
BMW M2 Competition
Hyundai Veloster N
Kia Ceed GT
McLaren 720S

World Green Car of the Year
Audi e-tron
BMW i8 Roadster
Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid
Honda Insight
Hyundai Nexo
Jaguar I-PACE
Kia Niro EV
Lexus ES Hybrid
Lexus UX Hybrid
Toyota Avalon Hybrid
Toyota RAV4 Hybrid

World Urban Car of the Year
Audi A1
Kia Soul
SEAT Arona
Suzuki Jimny

To be eligible, competing cars must be marketed in at least five countries, from at least two continents, but not earlier than January 1, 2019. The jury includes 75 experienced car journalists representing profile publications from 23 countries , worldwide. Most of them come from North America, Europe, Asia and Russia.

The WCOTY Trophy does not coincide with the European Car of the Year, awarded every year in Europe and won in 2018 by the new Volvo XC40.

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  • João Carlos Rica Costa says:

    good morning; aparently the new gle is not in any of the eligible lists… do you know what happened?

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Forty years after its original 1979 release, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s celebrated masterpiece of the Vietnam War era has been restored, remastered and re-released as Apocalypse Now Final Cut. For the first time, Coppola’s original intent for creating a visceral, deep low frequency impact has been fully realized with the introduction of Sensual Sound, developed by American Zoetrope in partnership with Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc. of Berkeley, California. Under Coppola’s personal supervision, a team from his American Zoetrope production company remastered the film’s visuals in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision from the original negatives, and also transferred the soundtrack to high-resolution 96 kHz digital for remixing and remastering in Dolby Atmos.

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Lunch did not last long, and they stopped in a green field when they had plenty of daylight for the horses to feed.  The day remained cold, but the winter there still produced some green feed by the river.

When Lincoln finished his duty, helping to tend the horses, he pulled out the database, and after reading for a bit, he reported his speculation.  “There, on the hill, or in those hills, should be the city of Ephron.  Tomorrow, we should pass Pella in the morning and reach Amathus by afternoon.  They should all be on the other side of the river from the way we are traveling.  We should be able to wave and pass right on by.”

“How close to the border of Judea?” Katie asked.

“Um,” Lincoln figured.  “Based on the information I gathered in Philoteria, I would guess the Maccabees have not yet moved out of Judea.  That narrows the time frame to early in the rebellion.  I would guess we should cross into Jewish territory about lunch on the next day, about a half-day from Jericho.”

Katie nodded.  “That is the day we will have to watch carefully.  Both the Syrians and Jews may have men guarding the border, and they may not be too happy with people crossing over, one way or the other.”

“True enough,” a woman said.  People looked, expecting Tama, or maybe Aleah to appear.  Instead, Anath-Rama, the goddess of the Amazon paradise appeared, though it took the travelers a minute to figure it out.  Katie was the first to speak.

“I’m not dead yet,” she said.  “And I was told I don’t qualify as an Amazon.”

“And you are correct,” Anath-Rama said.  “But you carry three who are dead.  I thought it only right to apologize for burdening you with them.”

The travelers looked at each other and asked, “How so?”

Anath-Rama took a seat between Katie and Alexis before she spoke.  “The Jews are kept in a place apart.  Not even the gods know that place.  Since Alexander, things have become muddied.  Baal, Hades, Erishkegal, and many other cathartic gods from here in the east all the way to Egypt have argued at times on just where some people need to go.  Some spirits have had to wait for years to be placed.  These three, however, were different.  No one wanted them.  No one dared take Jews into their place.  But the source did not take them, either.  No one knew what to do with them.”

“That is terrible,” Alexis said.

“To have to wander that town, without hope, for more than five hundred years.

“Five hundred and sixty-eight years.  But they were not alone.  I broke down and took them in so they would not have to be alone.  Your adopted android daughter, Artie, prevailed upon me, kind heart that she is.”

Lockhart looked up before he turned his head to the flames.  Katie stiffened, before she confessed, “She got her kind heart from her father.”  Lockhart kindly did not say anything.  He remembered how they found Artie crashed to the earth, and how Elder Stow was instrumental in setting her free from all the restraints her Anazi makers placed on her.  He remembered how he and Katie adopted her, long before they actually married, and how she became transformed at one point into a human, so she became like a real daughter to the couple.  But in the end, she transformed back into an android so she could set her people free of their Anazi slave-masters.  He knew she was gone but felt glad to know she continued among the dead.  He remembered Anath-Rama volunteered to watch over the spirits of the android dead until what they called the time of the dissolution of the gods.  He felt grateful to know Artie was in good hands, but thought he better listen, as Anath-Rama picked up her story.

“Once that became settled, the gods prophesied.  These three, a man, a woman, and a child, would be a sign for when the days of the gods would end.  You may have noticed the gods are not around as much as in the past.  It is said, when these three reach Jerusalem, the time will be two weeks and two days.  By dead reckoning, that is one hundred and sixty years.  The Gods have that time to finish their work and go over to the other side.  When the time is up, the day of the gods will be over.”

“Dead Reckoning, good pun,” Decker said.

Anath-Rama smiled for him.  “Thanks.  I saved it for years.”

“But wait,” Lincoln spoke up.  “Not all of the gods are anxious to end their days.  What if one of them tries to stop us?”

Anath-Rama shook her head.  “These three are protected by the full power and might of the gods.  Any attempt would send the offending god or spirit instantly to the other side.  You will be left alone.”

“The other side?” Millie asked, quietly.

“Death,” Alexis explained, with equal quiet.

“So, I am sorry to burden you, but when you came through the time gate, I felt—no—I believed you were the answer we were waiting for.  I am glad you don’t mind.”

“Mom?  Dad?”  The voice came before Artie appeared.

“Artie?”  Katie jumped up and opened her arms.  Lockhart stood and watched Artie the android race into Katie’s embrace.  Katie and Artie started to cry, and Lockhart slipped his arms around his two girls, and without the awkwardness or embarrassment he used to show all those centuries ago.  After a while, Artie talked.

“Mom, my people are all gone now.”

“I know,” Katie said as she took her hand to brush Artie’s hair.  “But you lived a good, long time, and your people lived free.”

“We did,” Artie said, and began a new round of tears.

“But where will you go when the gods have all gone?”  Lockhart had been thinking.

“We are not sure,” Artie said, and with a glimpse at Anath-Rama, she added, “No one is sure.  But most believe it will be a great adventure.”  Artie grinned, and looked at Boston, who returned the grin.  “And mom,” Artie said, and waited.

“I am here,” Katie said.

“My big sister, Sekhmet, wants to say good-bye, too.  She says she will see you at the time gate in Suez.”

Katie, Lockhart, and Artie hugged again, and then Artie and Anath-Rama began to fade, until they disappeared.  Evan waited until they were gone before he asked.

“The Egyptian lion goddess, defender of the upper Nile,” Katie admitted.

“I’m not sure how we adopted Sekhmet,” Lockhart said.  “I suppose she sort of adopted us.”

Katie nodded, and said, “But I don’t mind.”

“No, I don’t mind,” Lockhart agreed.  “She is a good daughter.  Both of them.  We had two good daughters.”  Katie nodded in agreement as Millie turned on Evan.

“I want a daughter.”

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