Peter Barbieri’s final novel in his trilogy continues with EMILY MADDING’s journal; in it, Emily documents PALE-MOON’s narration of life in her [Pale-Moon] ninth-century Native American village. Pale-Moon’s connection to Emily, a woman living in the nineteenth century, enables the two women to dream-travel to each other’s “time-band”. Thus begins a celestial relationship that endures for centuries.

Emily frequently dream-travels to the ninth-century village and is present during the birth and much of the subsequent twenty-year life of...