The protagonists are usually unsure of themselves, making seriously flawed decisions in a seriously flawed world. The books in this universe usually have a melancholy tone. Hell, even the book that started all this, Wicked, has almost nothing in common with the famous musical that was made out of it. No, this universe has very little in common with the original Oz books. Everyone in Oz can choose to stop aging at whatever age they choose and they are so completely immortal that, if chopped to tiny pieces, each individual piece of flesh will still be alive and conscious to a degree.īut I digress. This universe was always a weird alternate reality compared to the original children's books, if for no other reason than because people in Oz are supposed to be immortal. However, I have always had a handicap in that I actually read all the original Oz books, so I know exactly what Quadling Country and Tick-Tock and all the rest are supposed to be like. I enjoyed the earlier books in this universe. Maguire’s new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives. Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz. The trilogy Another Day will follow this green-skinned girl from the island outpost into the unmapped badlands of Maracoor before she learns how, and becomes ready, to turn her broom homeward, back to her family and her lover, back to Oz, which-in its beauty, suffering, mystery, injustice, and possibility-reminds us all too clearly of the troubled yet sacred terrain of our own lives. Is it myth or magic at work, for good or for ill? Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices.Īs the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the island’s civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and wellbeing of an entire nation. Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island.
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