Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Becoming Leidah | 2021 | Michelle Grierson | Buy |
This collection contains Michelle Grierson’s debut novel Becoming Leidah, published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster Canada. Set in nineteenth-century rural Norway, the novel follows Leidah Pietersdatter, a girl born with blue skin and webbed hands and feet, and her mother Maeva, who struggles to hide the child’s differences from a community of suspicious Christian villagers.
The novel draws on Norse mythology and Celtic myth to explore questions of identity, belonging, and the power of ancestral memory. A shapeshifter follows the family through generations, connecting the present-day story to deeper mythological roots. Grierson brings her background as an arts educator, dancer, and painter to a novel that is as atmospheric as it is strange.