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Engaged in "soul-making," novelist Jim Harrison experiments in his novel Dalva with developing his feminine side in the service of his art and life by utilizing psychologist James Hillman's post-Jungian ideas. Harrison tells the story in the first person voice of Dalva, a Nebraskan woman of Swedish and Sioux descent. To overcome depression and to thrive, Harrison had to acknowledge a masculinity of greater dimension than he had characterized earlier in his career, when his characters were often called "macho." The new conception of masculinity is symbolized by locating his lost "twin sister." Dalva is the outward sign that Harrison found her, thereby extending his understanding of masculinity and revitalizing his life and art.