YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THIS NOVEL FROM AMAZON FOR FREE. One reviewer wrote: "Elf stories aren't just for kids anymore. Actually, they haven't been for a long time (if ever), but after O Human Child you'll definitely want to check twice before buying one for a young relative. "The book begins at one of those idyllic starting points for any story--a farmhouse porch on a June day in the Catskills, with a young family newly moved in for the summer. And while idyllic starting points in fiction usually mean trouble ahead, Walter Donway gives us an intriguing plot which puts that family through hell (only partly undeserved). He does so with a skill that I'm coming to expect from his novels--a conversational style that effortlessly pulls you along until, at a number of points throughout the story, you pause and realize that this is damn good writing. O Human Child raises the question of where to find safety in a world of malevolent elves. The answer is in the company of benevolent ones. That's no surprise, except that in this story the latter bear no bias against us when it comes to passion, and so one result is some pretty fantastical sex. Perhaps those who grew up in the Catskills know this comes with the territory, but for the rest of us it's good news, expertly delivered."