This story is made from the living matter of our consciousness.
A somatic, mythic novel.
Lune carries our feeling of life's first kiss.
A world where wonder is still alive, and the body remembers how to listen.
She is
DragonBack, one of a people born from the honest longing of memory itself.
Sweetly and savagely woven into nature and into each other, as the pulse is between embryo and mother.
Teon knows something different.
He has felt our shattering, the place where love and self-love become tangled in the noise of the mind.
And the very thing he believes might break him becomes the passage through which he is born anew.
Among the
DragonBacks, Dragons are not legend.
They are living movements within the fabric of the world.
Currents that move through land and water, through the body, through the unseen circuitry of life itself.
As
Lune and
Teon walk deeper into this living landscape, something begins to open.
A way of being that lets the body finally exhale.
DragonBacks: CuckooThe first book in the opening movement of a mythic story where landscape, body, ritual, and imagination meet again.
Let home find you as you feel yourself truly alive once more.
Reader Reviews:
"This book is medicine. Drink deeply and let the poetic genius of Olivka Wilk's prose awaken the wildness within. There are soul-diamonds to be mined in these pages."- Davina Mackail, teacher, elder, and Hay House author
"DragonBacks isn't just a story, it is a remembrance and an activation of something that has been sleeping within us all for far too long. I loved reading this story. Olivka Wilk's poetic genius makes for a book that commands presence. Each word and sentence is to be cherished as the events unfold and take you on a journey into a world of magical connections that our humanness longs for. I can't recommend this story enough. And I'm so excited for the next book."- Layla M, England
"I've read many books that feature dragons, and while most share a similar mythology around what dragons are and what they can or can't do, DragonBacks is the first book that truly takes that experience somewhere entirely different.Without spoiling the plot, it's the first time I've felt dragons as something beyond visual spectacle. The writing becomes visceral, it settles into your lungs, your nostrils, your nervous system. It awakens senses and emotions I've never experienced in other fantasy novels. That, to me, is the greatest compliment I can give. You don't simply observe these creatures; you feel a place among them, a strange kindredness with something mythical, ancient, and alive. It created a connection I've never before, or since, encountered in stories about dragons."- Harry D, UK
"The words throughout this book sing off the page. They stirred a variety of emotions, including the wish to be right there in the story, whirling amongst the DragonBacks. I was so invested in the unfolding, that it was a shock that I came to the last page. And even more shocking is the fact that I have to wait until the second is released. There is no other book out there like this one, and it will always have pride of place on my over burgeoning bookshelves."- Bean S, Austin, USA