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ISBN10: 161232052X
ISBN13: 9781612320526
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 29 2011
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781612320526
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 29 2011
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
TThe Long Walk of the Navajos continues in Sweet Salt, a novel of beauty and endurance by Robert Mayer.
Monument Valley is home to Nina Yazzie, a Navajo girl becoming a Navajo woman. In throbbing rhythms live with her through a hectic ride to a hospital at Tuba City. Bear the pain of the child within her, struggling to be born prematurely; witness her father, Not-So-Fast, who carries within him the curse of a wolf girl; her grandfather, One-Blue-Eye, who speaks in riddles of the wisdom of the Navajo Nation; and Michael, an anglo doctor, who treats her after a suicide attempt and becomes her friend, her confidant.
With her sheep as companions, walk with the child Nina through Monument Valley. With the older Nina, walk through Santa Fe, a city that seduces her to art and to love.
Praise for Robert Mayer
Ambitious, imaginative... A rich cultural and psychological account. ...The Navajo rituals are fascinating.-Albuquerque Journal
Very rewarding and even a little hypnotic.-Santa Fe Reporter
Mayer has the journalist's eye and the poet's touch.-Detroit News
Monument Valley is home to Nina Yazzie, a Navajo girl becoming a Navajo woman. In throbbing rhythms live with her through a hectic ride to a hospital at Tuba City. Bear the pain of the child within her, struggling to be born prematurely; witness her father, Not-So-Fast, who carries within him the curse of a wolf girl; her grandfather, One-Blue-Eye, who speaks in riddles of the wisdom of the Navajo Nation; and Michael, an anglo doctor, who treats her after a suicide attempt and becomes her friend, her confidant.
With her sheep as companions, walk with the child Nina through Monument Valley. With the older Nina, walk through Santa Fe, a city that seduces her to art and to love.
Praise for Robert Mayer
Ambitious, imaginative... A rich cultural and psychological account. ...The Navajo rituals are fascinating.-Albuquerque Journal
Very rewarding and even a little hypnotic.-Santa Fe Reporter
Mayer has the journalist's eye and the poet's touch.-Detroit News
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