In a world of mysterious forests, superstitious humans, and talking animals, a hideous looking baby-- yellow eyes, a little piggy nose, long, pointy ears, and a body coated in primitive fur--is found by a witch in a hollowed oak tree....

Moving between twenty-first-century America and seventeenth-century England, The Book of Air and Shadows is a modern thriller that brilliantly re-creates William Shakespeare's life at the turn of the seventeenth century and combines a...