But, no. The suffering reader must plough through several hundred more pages of cross-cultural, cross-spatial, cross-you-name it, goings-on. In any case, someone named Clear Water Iris Daughter must be destined for the Extraordinary. So, she rechristens herself Devi (a short prologue to the story harangues us on the powers of a feminist 'Devi' or Earth-cum-Mother Goddess who slays the Buffalo Demon sometime in the late afternoon, cosmic time, somewhere in the Mystic East) and sets out to find her 'Bio (logical)-Mom' and 'Bio-Dad' and get even with them.