The Superior Maunt recognizes the young man as Liir, the young boy who left the Cloister with Elphaba a decade or so ago. Oatsie Manglehand discovers the body of a young man, badly bruised and near death, by the side of a road in the Vinkus and brings him to the Cloister of Saint Glinda. In an interview that was included with the Son of a Witch audio CD, Gregory Maguire gave two reasons for writing the book: "the many letters from young fans asking what happened to Nor, last seen as a chained political prisoner, and seeing the Abu Ghraib torture photographs." Plot Like Wicked, Son of a Witch elaborates a darker and more mature side of the world of Oz. The book is dedicated to the cast of the Broadway musical version of Wicked. Son of a Witch continues the story after the fall from power of the Wizard of Oz and the death of Elphaba by recounting the life of Elphaba’s son, Liir. The book is Maguire’s fifth revisionist story and the second set in the land of Oz originally conceived by L. Son of a Witch (2005) is a fantasy novel by American writer Gregory Maguire.
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