Mary Jane of Information Services recommends Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire:
Travel caravan leader, Oatsie Manglehand, stumbles upon the body of an unknown young man, badly beaten, comatose, but still alive. Novelist Gregory Maguire returns to Oz where he introduces us to Liir, the fourteen year old boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Shattered in spirit and form, Liir is tended by a mute novice who heals him with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba’s son? He has her broom and her cape, but what of her powers? These and other questions drive a tale that mixes drama, humor and political satire into a well knit examination of good and evil.

