A review by saerryc
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint

3.0

The story of a woman paralyzed in a hit-and-run who gains access to a spirit-world she can visit in her dreams as her body lays broken in the hospital, only to discover that she can’t hope to heal from this injury until her spirit begins to heal from an earlier one. It turns out that what the vague reference to a “dark secret” in the cover synopsis means is that this is a book fundamentally about the lifelong trauma experienced by victims of child abuse. So while I’m a big fan of the way de Lint interweaves fantasy stuff with the real world, this book is pretty dark, especially since I hadn’t really realized what I was getting into. It’s well-written, but not the book I’d recommend for someone starting out with de Lint.