The Grass-Cutting Sword Paperback – Audiobook, January 1, 2006
by Catherynne M. Valente  (Author)
This book explores the strange landscape of primeval Japan, from the Heaven Spanning Bridge to the hellish Root Country: the troubled trickster Susanoo no-Mikoto, god of wind and storms, is banished from heaven and wanders the earth, lost in human form, in search of his demonic mother and charged with the defeat of an eight-headed serpent.