Evil Chasing Way by Gerald Hausman
Set against the night country of New Mexico is a mystery that has never been solved. The novel follows the footsteps of a young reporter who has been assigned to witness a series of bizarre cattle mutilations. In his search for truth, he interviews tribal elders, scientists, FBI agents, state police, mediums, mystics, cattle and horse ranchers, and many other observers living in the high desert of northern New Mexico. One of his interviewees is a scientist who claims to have been taken aboard a star car. A Navajo medicine man confirms that he was abducted as well. A tribal friend tells the author: There is a hole in the sky and things are coming out of it. PRAISE FOR GERALD HAUSMAN If you're hungry for a book to keep you up past bedtime-with all the lights on-this tale is for you. Based on real unsolved mysteries, Evil Chasing Way deals with startling animal deaths that some attribute to aliens, skinwalkers, secret government research or a force of true evil. This is New Mexico's own X File anchored in Hausman's elegant prose and finely tuned descriptions of the Southwestern landscape. -Anne Hillerman, author of Song of the Lion Evil Chasing Way is something special. Part mystery, part magical realism, part personal journey, and very much mystical, I was irresistibly drawn into the story. I was captivated by the narrator, an inquisitive journalist seeking answers to the mysterious and often grotesque cattle and horse mutilations that once plagued southern Colorado and much of New Mexico. Experts raced from incident to incent, but credible explanations were few and far between. What happens when reality defies known science and rationality? That's where Gerald Hausman begins. Then he draws deep from his well of knowledge of Navajo story and culture. (Think Tony Hillerman on steroids.) He takes you on a journey from the arroyos and high forests of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the craggy stone crevasses of the Grand Canyon. Along the way you meet shuffling skin walkers, extraterrestrials, and crafty coyotes. This is more than a novel. It's an experience you won't forget and it will leave you hungry for more. -Peter Eichstaedt, author of Borderlands and The Dangerous Divide
Hausman, Gerald: - GERALD HAUSMAN, the author of more than 70 books for children and adults spent much of his adult life in New Mexico during which time he translated Native origin stories with Navajo artist and friend, Jay DeGroat. Many of these were aired on Navajo Nation radio station KTNN and The Turquoise Horse was included in the Junior Great Books international reading program. It is used in classrooms throughout the U.S. and in the twenty years since its first publication has become a classic in cultural learning for elementary and middle school students. His folktales have also been aired on the History Channel, NPR, and Pacifica Broadcasting. In 2006 the University of Washington Graduate Film School, (supported by Myra and Bill Gates Foundation and Pixar) created an animated short from Gerald Hausman's book, The Boy with the Sun Tree Bow. It has been used as a textbook for environmental studies in South America. Twelve of Gerald's other books are translated in foreign languages and The New York Times praised the anthology Tunkashila: From the Birth of Turtle Island to the Blood of Wounded Knee calling it An eloquent tribute to the first great storytellers of America. Other honors for Gerald Hausman's work are from the American Folklore Society, the American Bookseller, Children's Protective Services, the Bank Street College of Education, the National Council of Social Studies, the International Reading Association, Parent's Choice, The Ministry of Education of Jamaica, The New York Public Library Best Books, and CCBC Choices/Best of the Year. Gerald and his wife Loretta have done a number of animal books together and with Alice Winston Carney they have led a summer workshop in memoir writing at The Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico, for the past nine years. Gerald and Loretta also founded Irie Books which publishes memoirs, children's books, poetry, biography and translations. Gerald's most recent book is Island Dreams: Selected Poems from 1964-2015. He has read his poetry at Harvard University, St John's College, the Kennedy Center, Fordham University, Queen's College and dozens of other universities nationwide.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781628155198 |
| ISBN 10 | 1628155191 |
| Title | Evil Chasing Way |
| Author | Gerald Hausman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Speaking Volumes, LLC |
| Year published | 2017-09-20 |
| Number of pages | 230 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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