This is a dark and heavy fantasy set in the wilderness outside of a 20th century society. Issues of gender, abnormality and family are dealt with as a Nursing mother journeys to retrieve her kidnapped twin infants.

The language is beautiful, the emotions are strong, and violence is not shied away from. I'd not recommend this to the squeamish or prudish. I called it fantasy, but the underlying strangeness in the book could just as easily have scientific explanations and no magic is explicitly invoked. I'm tempted to classify this as "new weird" although I'm still getting a feel for how to correctly classify something as such.