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Plumage is the story of a divorced woman, who goes to work at a hotel, and is swept into a alternate 'world' of magic where she learns to express herself and be the woman she has forgotten how to be. Supporting cast characters include a drag queen, her slimey ex-husband AND Robin Hood!
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Plot & Themes

FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?    -   part earth & part fantasy world Explore/1st contact/ enviro story    -   Yes Explore:    -   exploring a wondrous planet or phenomena Romance    -   Yes Inner Struggle    -   Yes Plotlet:    -   search for identity/new understanding Is this an adult or child's book?    -   Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character

Identity:    -   Female Profession/status:    -   homemaker Age:    -   40's-50's Really unusual traits?    -   Super sensitive soggy jelly muffin

Setting

Terrain    -   Jungle A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:    -   empty, or nearly empty world Takes place on Earth?    -   Yes Planet outside solar system?    -   Yes

Writing Style

Accounts of torture and death?    -   no torture/death scientific jargon? (SF only)    -   none/very little science jargon needed How much dialogue?    -   roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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