However, at this point her life is a lot clearer to me than mine. The events of Maya’s life do not correspond to mine - in fact, she often does things I thought about doing, but in my own life, thought better of. Q: Is Walking to Mercury autobiographical?Ī: It wasn’t, but I fear it has become so.
I’ve been traveling around a lot doing readings and book signings, and often I get asked certain questions, so I thought I’d interview myself here and answer a few of them: In some ways, it is also a book about the sixties, although it is just as much a novel about relationships, about sex, magic, race, politics, and a philosophical dialogue between Paganism and Buddhism. For those of you who know The Fifth Sacred Thing, Mercury is a prequel - the story of Maya Greenwood’s wild youth in the sixties, her attempts to come to terms with her mother’s death in her late thirties, and her long relationships with Rio and Johanna. Mercury is a story about following a vision - and how ambiguous and slippery a vision can be over the course of a lifetime.
In February, my latest book, Walking to Mercury, was published. A Self-Interview with and by Starhawk April, 1997 Walking to Mercury - fiction by Starhawk.
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