Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in "All My Relations" explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to a complex constellation of relationships. In the title story of the collection, a Pima Indian hires on with a rancher in an attempt to quit drinking and to win back the wife and son who have left him. His efforts to master land and horses and to bake the perfect cake mirror his efforts to subdue his own demons and to embrace a peaceful domesticity.
In "The Big Bang and the Good House,"...
Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in "All My Relations" explore the inner landscape of mind and ...
Here I Am a Writer contains poems and stories produced by teacher Christopher "Kit" McIlroy's Native American students involved in the school ArtsReach program in Arizona. A decade or more after these intensive writing sessions took place, McIlroy went in search of the young writers who'd opened their hearts in his classes, to see how they'd fared in the intervening years and if they were still writing at all. What he chronicles is as much his journey of discovery as theirs. While the unifying focus of the book is writing, how these amateur writers' talents were uncovered, how they touched...
Here I Am a Writer contains poems and stories produced by teacher Christopher "Kit" McIlroy's Native American students involved in the school ArtsReac...
